CHILD'S

Date "CHILD'S" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Facility

Plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing; mere child's play, holiday task; cinch.

Unimportance

Nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter; Adjective:; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose; child's play, kinderspiel.

Crosswords: CHILD'S

A little child she was, but also a fierce killer, now capable of the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child's demanding (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

The child's strength is not his own. (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings)

Oh, shoot, I just spilled on this invitation to a child's birthday party (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Yes! The individual human mind. In a child's ability to master the multiplication table, there is more holiness than all your shouted hosannas and holy holies (Inherit the Wind; writing credit: Jerome Lawrence; Robert E. Lee)

What would you be saying to the child's mother now (Fierce Creatures; writing credit: John Cleese and Iain Johnstone.)

With the child's adoration (Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord; performing artist: Boney M)

I could tell by how far the child's shadow is stretched out and (Counting Blue Cars; performing artist: Dishwalla)

They facing a court case when the child's support late (Doo Wop (That Thing); performing artist: Lauryn Hill)

For my child's birthday I ain't invited (Ms. Jackson; performing artist: Outkast)

Embarrassing position of being unable to do your child's arithmetic homework (New Math; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. (references; author: unknown)

On a child's superman costume: "Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly. (references; author: unknown)

The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. (references; author: unknown)

Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)

Child's Play (1972)

For His Child's Sake (1913)

A Child's Influence (1913)

Her Child's Honor (1911)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Child's Conception of Physical Causality (reference)

• A Good Start in Life: Understanding Your Child's Brain and Behavior (reference)

• A to Z Guide to Your Child's Behavior: A Parent's Easy and Authoritative Reference to Hundreds of Everyday Problems and Concerns from Birth to 12 Ye (reference)

• Change Your Child's Behavior by Changing Yours: 13 New Tricks to Get Kids to Cooperate (reference)

• Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities from the Very Start (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Child's Play 2 (reference)

• Child's Play 3: Look Who's Stalking (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Child's Celebration of Rock 'n' Roll (reference)

• A Child's Christmas/Marvelous Toy and Other Gallimaufry (reference)

• A Child's Hanukkah (reference)

• Child's Garden of Song: The Poetry of Stevenson (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Philips VRDK11YL 2-Head Child's VCR (Yellow) (reference)

• Philips VRKD12BL 2-Head Child's VCR (Blue) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Lunt Baby Child's Cup (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A physician examines an infant in the intensive care unit (ICU), accompanied by the child's foster mother and various other medical staff. There are 3 different angles. See artwork: NCI-40. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

... efforts to treat the child's double pneumonia were of no avail. / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Middlesex Hospital, London, England. : Nurse testing a child's vital capacity. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Truly I find small difficulty here, the matter being even a child's affair for simpleness. Credit: Library of Congress.

New Orleans, La. 1942-43(?) ... A dentist examining a child's teeth. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two women and three children in clinic waiting room containing play pen and child's chair. Credit: Library of Congress.

Child's Grotto, Delaware Water Gap. Credit: Library of Congress.

Child's glacier. Credit: Library of Congress.

Frank G. Carpenter at Child's Glacier. Credit: Library of Congress.

Child's painting, Arthurdale school, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This is intended for the parents advantage, as the other is for the child's; though education, the parents duty, seems to have most power, because the ignorance and infirmities of childhood stand in need of restraint and correction; which is a visible exercise of rule, and a kind of dominion. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Every child's mental health is important. (references)

It will be helpful to your child's doctors. (references)

Build meals around your child's favorite foods. (references)

Business

Courts usually grant custody to the father regardless of the child's age in divorce cases. (references)

The 1993 amendment made sexual abuse of children by German citizens abroad punishable even if the action is not illegal in the child's own country. (references)

Children

Greece

A children's NGO, A Child's Smile, claims that many street children are victims of abuse. (references)

Cuba

If the child was found bothering tourists a second time, police frequently fined the child's parents. (references)

Vanuatu

Members of the extended family, particularly paternal uncles, play an active role in a child's development. (references)

Economic History

Sweden

Parents are entitled to a total of 12 months' paid leave between birth and the child's eighth birthday, with one of those months reserved specifically for the father. (references)

Human Rights

Indonesia

The kidnaper surrendered to police before the child's parents paid the ransom. (references)

Zambia

The child and her mother were released unconditionally after 16 hours; the child's father was detained for 4 days at the Woodlands Police Station, then released without charge. (references)

Minorities

Israel and the occupied territories

In August in a shopping mall in Haifa, a man threw a Druze baby against a wall after he heard the child's parents speaking Arabic. (references)

Korea

In June 1998, the Government passed legislation to allow a female citizen to transmit citizenship to her child regardless of the citizenship of the child's father. (references)

Political Economy

UNITED KINGDOM

Local education authorities can limit employment of children under 16 if working will interfere with the child's education. (references)

Women

Iran

Women who remarry are forced to give up to the child's father custody of children from earlier marriages. (references)

Worker Rights

Cameroon

The law also states that a child's workday cannot exceed 8 hours. (references)

Brazil

To receive the stipend, the child's monthly attendance rate must be 85 percent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "CHILD'S": child's body ♦ child's bottle ♦ child's coat ♦ child's deferred assurance ♦ child's game ♦ child's nurse ♦ child's play ♦ child's remark ♦ child's room ♦ child's special allowance ♦ it's child's game ♦ it's child's play. Additional references.

Beginning with "CHILD'S": child's-eye, child's-head-sized, child's-play, Child's-pugh.

Albanian

punë fort e lehtë (child's play). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لعب الأطفال (child's play), ‏طفولة (babyhood, child's play, girlhood, infancy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

палтенце (child's coat), играчка (child's play, knack, plaything, tool, toy, whim-wham). (various references)

Chinese 

滿月 (complete month; child's achievement of month of life), 哇 (sound of child's crying), 咧 (child's cry, draw back corners of mouth). (various references)

Czech

je to hraèka (it's a piece of cake, it's as easy as pie, it's child's game), hraèka (affair, child's play, knick knack, picnic, plaything, pushover, toy, walkover). (various references)

Danish

skoletavle (school child's slate, writing slate), skolekort (school child's season ticket, student's season ticket), skifertavle til skoleboern (school child's slate, writing slate), opsat børneforsikring (child's deferred assurance), boernegynge (child's swing), barnebillet (child's ticket), abonnementskort for skoleelever (school child's season ticket, student's season ticket). (various references)

Dutch

uitzetverzekering (child's deferred assurance), schoollei (school child's slate, writing slate), scholierkaart (school child's season ticket, student's season ticket), kinderkaart (child's ticket), kinderbed (child's bed, cot). (various references)

Esperanto

infanlito (child's bed, cot). (various references)

Finnish

lykätty lapsenvakuutus (child's deferred assurance), leikinteko (child's play), lapsenleikki (child's play). (various references)

French

mot d'enfant (child's remark), jeu pour l'enfant (child's play), escarpolette (child's swing), bonne d'enfant (child's nurse), billet d'enfant (child's ticket), assurance dotale (child's deferred assurance), ardoise d'écolier (school child's slate), allocation spéciale pour les enfants des femmes divorcées (child's special allowance), allocation familiale spéciale (child's special allowance), ??? (child's play). (various references)

German

das ist ein reines Kinderspiel (that's mere child's play). (various references)

Greek 

κάτι πολύ εύκολο (a piece of cake, child's play), κούνια (cradle, crib, hammock, sling, swing), μαθητικό πάσο (school child's season ticket, student's season ticket), μαθητικό δελτίο συνδρομής (school child's season ticket, student's season ticket), μαθητική κάρτα συνδρομής (school child's season ticket, student's season ticket), πλάκα μαθητού (school child's slate, writing slate), παιχνιδάκι (child's play, plain sailing, smooth sailing, toy), παιδικό εισιτήριο (child's ticket), φοιτητικό πάσο (school child's season ticket, student's season ticket), φοιτητικό δελτίο συνδρομής (school child's season ticket, student's season ticket), φοιτητική κάρτα συνδρομής (school child's season ticket, student's season ticket), ασφάλιση ανηλίκων που προβλέπει την καταβολή ασφαλίσματος σε περίπτωση θανάτου μετά από συγκεκριμένη ηλικία (child's deferred assurance), αιώρα (hammock, seesaw, swing). (various references)

Hungarian

gyerekjáték (as easy as pie, breeze, cake-walk, child's play, pushover). (various references)

Italian

scherzo (banter, child's play, frolic, frolics, gag, game, hoaw, jape, jest, joke, lark, play, prank, quiz, rag, trick, trifle), polizza dotale (child's deferred assurance), polizza di dotazione (child's deferred assurance), lavagnetta (school child's slate, writing slate), biglietto per ragazzi (child's ticket), altalena per bambini (child's swing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

食べ盛り (growing child's hearty appetite), 童心　 (child's mind, naivete), 童心 (child's mind, naivete), 双六 (a child's dice game), 子方 (child's role in Noh dance), 子供部屋 (child's room, nursery), 子供騙し (childish trick, kid stuff, mere child's play), 幼心 (child's heart, child's mind, very young mind), 児戯 (mere child's play), 写し絵 (child's copying pictures, magic-lantern picture, shadowgraph), 付け紐 (child's sash), 七夜 (celebration of a child's seventh day). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たべざかり (growing child's hearty appetite), すごろく (a child's dice game), おさなごころ (child's heart, child's mind, very young mind), しちや (celebration of a child's seventh day, pawnshop), うつしえ (child's copying pictures, film picture, magic-lantern picture, shadowgraph, silhouette), どうしん (child's mind, concentricity, moral sense, naivete, policeman, same mind, the same faith, unanimity), つけひも (child's sash), こどもべや (child's room, nursery), こどもだまし (childish trick, kid stuff, mere child's play), こかた (child's role in Noh dance), じぎ (declining, fitting thing, greeting, mere child's play, refusing, season's greetings, the meaning or sense of a word, the right time). (various references)

Manx

staartey bog (child's play), boteil yiole (baby's bottle, child's bottle). (various references)

Pig Latin

ild'schay.(various references)

Portuguese

seguro dotal (child's deferred assurance), retoiça (child's swing), passe de estudante (school child's season ticket, student's season ticket), bilhete para criança (child's ticket), baloiço (child's swing, see-saw, swing), assinatura de estudante (school child's season ticket, student's season ticket), ardósia para estudante (school child's slate, writing slate), algo fácil (child's play). (various references)

Romanian

copilãresc (bread and butter, childish, childlike, children's, infantile, jejune). (various references)

Russian 

легкая задача (child's play, child's-play, walkover), пустяковое дело (child's-play). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

laka stvar (child's play). (various references)

Spanish

camita de niño (child's bed, cot). (various references)

Swedish

sammansatt kapitalförsäkring för barn (child's deferred assurance), barnlek (children's game, child's play, pushover). (various references)

Turkish

kolay iş (child's play, easy job, mickey mouse, set up, shade, simple job, sitter, snap, snip), çok kolay (as easy as pie, as easy as shelling peas, easy as winking, it's child's play, it's money for jam, it's pie, it's very easy), çocuk oyuncağı (as easy as pie, breeze, child's play, cinch, it's pie, jam, picnic, pushover, toy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc dễ làm (child's play, picnic). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"CHILD'S" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: childas, Chilodus. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: child.

-3 letters: chid, chis, disc, dish, ichs, lich, lids, sild, slid.

-4 letters: chi, cis, dis, hic, hid, his, ich, ids, lid, lis, sic.

-5 letters: hi, id, is, li, sh, si.