Child Definition | What is Child? - PoetrySoup

[n] a young person of either sex (between birth and puberty); "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"
[n] a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; "they had three children"; "they were able to send their kids to college"
[n] an immature childish person; "he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived"; "stop being a baby!"
[n] a member of a clan or tribe; "the children of Israel"

child Poems and Poetry

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fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster

Antonyms

parent

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babe, baby, bairn, bambino, buster, changeling, child's body, descendant, descendent, family, family unit, female offspring, foster-child, human, imp, individual, infant, issue, juvenile, juvenile person, kiddy, male offspring, man-child, monkey, mortal, offspring, orphan, person, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, preschooler, progeny, pupil, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, schoolchild, silly, somebody, someone, soul, sprog, stepchild, toddler, tot, urchin, waif, yearling

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adolescent, angel, artifact, babe, baby, bairn, boy, brainchild, brat, brood, bud, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, child of nature, chit, coinage, composition, concoction, creation, creature, crowning achievement, darling, daughter, descendant, descendants, d

[n] the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
[n] the time of person's life when they are a child

childhood Poems and Poetry

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puerility

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anal phase, anal stage, boyhood, girlhood, immatureness, immaturity, latency period, latency phase, latency stage, maidenhood, maidhood, phallic phase, phallic stage, prepuberty, time of life

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adolescence, babyhood, beginnings, birth, boyhood, cradle, freshman year, genesis, girlhood, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, maidenhead, maidenhood, minority, nascence, nascency, nativity, origin, origination, parturiti

children Poems and Poetry

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babyhood, boyhood, breed, brood, childkind, descendants, descent, family, folks, fruit, get, girlhood, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, hearth, heirs, homefolks, hostages to fortune, house, household, inheritors, issue, kids, lineage, little kids, litt

for children Poems and Poetry

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[n] a child of your son or daughter

grandchild Poems and Poetry

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granddaughter, grandson, issue, offspring, progeny

my child Poems and Poetry

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my children Poems and Poetry

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