Definitions for Child

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Child child

Spelling: [chahyld]

IPA: /tʃaɪld/

Child is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in Child (cdhil).

Definitions for Child

noun

1. a person between birth and full growth; a boy or girl:
2. a son or daughter:
3. a baby or infant.
4. a human fetus.
5. a childish person:
6. a descendant:
7. any person or thing regarded as the product or result of particular agencies, influences, etc.:
8. a person regarded as conditioned or marked by a given circumstance, situation, etc.:
9. British Dialect Archaic. a female infant.
10. Archaic. childe.
11. Julia, 1912–2004, U.S. gourmet cook, author, and television personality.
12. Lydia Maria (Francis) 1802–80, U.S. author, abolitionist, and social reformer.

Idioms

1. with child, pregnant:

Origin of Child

before 950; Middle English; Old English cild; akin to Gothic kilthai womb

Examples for Child

But I've known every bad place in it, and I've religiously put in your "Come, come, child!"

Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

The child was preserved, and brought up in the temple of Phœbus.

You were our only child; named Artaminta, in remembrance of my mother.

It needs to be said: bigotry in the name of religion is still bigotry; child abuse wrapped in a Bible verse is still child abuse.

In Sweden parents can use those days up until the child turns 12.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.

The frolic with the child seemed to have blown away a fog from between them.

At least one child in CAR has been killed or gravely injured per day, and 10,000 have been recruited into militant groups.

When he "played" with Baby Akemit thereafter, the pretence was not all with the child.