child

noun · verbA1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

childrenchilderchildechilechildrenschilds

1.
(broadly)A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
Go easy on him: he is but a child.
Regular chores can be appropriate for children, given age-appropriate limits on difficulty level and time on task.
Đồng nghĩa: kid
2.
(with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
My youngest child is forty-three this year.
His adult children visit him yearly.
3.
(cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
4.
(figurative) A figurative offspring, particularly:
5.
(alt of, alternative)Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”).
6.
(mathematics, programming) A subordinate node of a tree.
7.
(figuratively)(figurative) An adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors.
My husband is such a child, going out with his sled everytime it snows.
8.
(obsolete, specifically)A female child, a girl.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

childs

V_ing/Gerund

childing

V_ed/pp

childed

1.
(ambitransitive, archaic)To give birth; to beget or procreate.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

kidbinary cloneprogeny hybrid product sondescendant See descendantproduct of a place or era product, son male, daughter female

Trái nghĩa

father mother parent adultoffspring father, mother, parentperson below the age of adulthood adult

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (womb; fetus), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelt- (womb), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (to ball up, amass).