child

Plural

children

1. 1.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.
   • And not just the children, teenagers too. Chuck wants a football, Kathleen a tattoo.
   • Regular chores can be appropriate for children, given age-appropriate limits on difficulty level and time on task.

2. 2.One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.

   • His adult children visit him yearly.
   • My youngest child is forty-three this year.

3. 3.The thirteenth Lenormand card.

   • In the old days, every child could tell the difference between good and bad.
   • The sick child sat up in bed.
   • I'm not a child anymore.

4. 4.A figurative offspring

   • Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war.
   • The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.
   • The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

Overall

Very common· #140

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Common

General reading & writing

Very common

Academic

Common

Literature

Uncommon

Antonyms

• parent

Synonyms

• kid

Word family

• childhood