[
US
/ˈtʃaɪɫd/
]
[ UK /tʃˈaɪld/ ]
[ UK /tʃˈaɪld/ ]
NOUN
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an immature childish person
he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived
stop being a baby! -
a young person of either sex
they're just kids
she writes books for children
`tiddler' is a British term for youngster -
a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
they were able to send their kids to college
they had three children -
a member of a clan or tribe
the children of Israel
How To Use child In A Sentence
- Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
- Combine the corn with steamed green vegetables like asparagus and offer baked potatoes to ensure the children don't go hungry.
- Their prayers were answered and the child was found safe and well.
- In Katine sub-county we hear about rape, defilement and child abuse, mostly of girls.
- This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
- The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
- Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
- Parents have to be a lot more careful about what their children are allowed to watch on the TV.
- They are now locked in a bitter custody battle over their three children.
- The report, which was based upon conversations with children who telephoned helplines, also claimed that the hidden problem of solvent abuse kills more children than drugs every year.