Child

Definition: Child

Child

Noun

1. 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".

2. A human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; "they had three children"; "they were able to send their kids to college".

3. An immature childish person; "he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived"; "stop being a baby!".

4. A member of a clan or tribe; "the children of Israel".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "child" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Bible

Census

Immigration

Literature

Math

Military & Defense

Multilingual Slang

Slang in 1811

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

child

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Child

Favorite

Noun: favorite, pet, cosset, minion, idol, jewel, spoiled child, enfant gat_; led captain; crony; fondling; apple of one's eye, man after one's own heart; persona grata.

Fool

Child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop.

Infant

Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle.

Petitioner

Pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty); hippie, flower child; hard core unemployed; welfare client, welfare case.

Posterity

Phrase: "the child is father of the man"; "the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree", "like father, like son".

Child, son, daughter; butcha; bantling, scion; acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.

Prosperity

Made man, lucky dog, enfant gate, spoiled child of fortune.

Satiety

Noun: satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit; cloyment, satiation; weariness. spoiled child; enfant gete, enfant terrible; too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix;Noun: satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit; cloyment, satiation; weariness. spoiled child; enfant gete, enfant terrible; too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix; crambe repetita.

Weakness

On its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water; colorless.

Crosswords: Child

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)

I was raised a white child in a poor black family (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know-- (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

If Brooke Shields married Groucho Marx their child would have your eyebrows (The Princess Diaries; writing credit: Gina Wendkos)

I will be watching you and if I find that you are trying to corrupt my first born child, I will bring you down, baby (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke)

Get Busy Child (Busy Child; performing artist: CRYSTAL METHOD)

Sweet child o' mine ("Sweet Child o' Mine"; performing artist: Guns N' Roses)

For the boy she loves God bless the child (Girls of Summer; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Sleep like a child resting deep (Sweet Dreams; performing artist: Air Supply)

When the rebel took a little child bride (CRADLE OF LOVE; performing artist: Billy Idol)

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. (references; author: Groucho Marx)

Sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child. (references; author: unknown)

Parental Observation: A child will not spill on a dirty floor. (references; author: unknown)

A sweater is usually put on a child when the parent feels chilly. (references; author: unknown)

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee. (references; author: unknown)

Child Under a Leaf (1974)

Part 3: Debbie and Robert: 12-24 Months Child (1974)

Whose Child Am I? (1974)

Child of the Universe (1973)

Unholy Child (1972)

Jesus To A Child (performing artist: George Michael)

Sweet Child O' Mine (performing artist: Guns N' Roses)

Society's Child (performing artist: Janis Ian)

Your Child (performing artist: Mary J. Blige)

HOT CHILD IN THE CITY (performing artist: NICK GUILDER)

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

Books

• Helping a Child with Nonverbal Learning Disorder or Asperger's Syndrome: A Parent's Guide (reference)

• Raising a Child with Autism: A Guide to Applied Behavior Analysis for Parents (reference)

• Primary Care of the Child with a Chronic Condition (reference)

• Individual and Social Responsibility: Child Care, Education, Medical Care, and Long-Term Care in America (National Bureau of Economic Research confer (reference)

• Positive Discipline: The First Three Years-Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Child (reference)

• Child Life (reference)

• Parent & Child (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Baby's Smart Start: Stimulating Your Child with Images and Classical Music (reference)

• Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• UltraSound - Music for the Unborn Child (reference)

• American Child (reference)

• Freedom's Child (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Wolf Child (reference)

• Micro Terminator Block Surge 8outlet with fax + Child Protect (reference)

• Child Safe 3.0 (reference)

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

Consumer Goods

• All-Clad LTD 2-1/2-Quart Julia Child Casserole Pan with Cookbook (reference)

• Leviton 802-88002-W Single Gang Child Resistant Wallplate (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.

The image shows a father holding a young child on his lap. They seem to be watching an event outside of the picture. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Pictured is a Mormon grandmother and granddaughter outside and smiling. The grandmother is carrying the child "piggy-back" and is holding some leaves. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Eyes of child with measles. Credit: CDC.

Child receiving oral polio vaccine, Somalia, 1998. Credit: CDC.

Eskimo woman and child ice fishing in the Bering Sea. Credit: Fisheries.

A small child watches migrating fish in fascination. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Native child on a rustic path. Credit: Small World.

A child enjoys a drink of fesh water. Credit: Charlie Rahm.

Child eating turkey leg. Credit: USDA.

Child farmer plowing with oxen. Montgomery county, AL/ February 1937.. Credit: USDA.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The power of the father doth not reach at all to the property of the child, which is only in his own disposing. (Second Treatise of Government)

The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour. (reference)

Sixth.­The abolition of child labour and the imposition of such limitations on the labour of young persons as shall permit the continuation of their education and assure their proper physical development. (reference)

A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

From the expense of the child, however, he was soon relieved

When the cloud of dust had cleared away, and the line was once more visible, we saw with thankful hearts that the child and his deliverer were safe

Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him.

She looked also at her slumbering child.

She worshipped her child.

And how many of those tiny little grains go to make up the small handful which a child grasps in its play

Good madam, be not angry with the child.

From the house came the clash of a lid on the stove and the wail of a child.

My son Johnny, named so after his uncle, was at the Grammar School, and a towardly child.

Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It depends on the child. (references)

Do not smoke around your child. (references)

She had had chickenpox as a child. (references)

Business

Otherwise, child labor is not permitted. (references)

Convention on the Rights of the Child they deem a priority. (references)

The average household size is 2.4 persons, with less than one child per family. (references)

Children

Kenya

Child rape and molestation continued. (references)

Nepal

As a result, child brides are common. (references)

Yemen

Child marriage is common in rural areas. (references)

Civil Liberties

Sweden

A 1999 law criminalizes the possession and handling of child pornography. (references)

Australia

Flood reported improper handling of a child abuse complaint at Woomera as well. (references)

United Arab Emirates

A child born to a citizen man and noncitizen woman acquires citizenship at birth. (references)

Economic History

Swaziland

Ntombi's only child, Prince Makhosetive, was named heir to the Swazi throne. (references)

Nigeria

The GON has ratified ILO convention on the "elimination of the worst form of child labor". (references)

Hong Kong

It has few environmental laws, safety laws, child worker laws, product performance laws, etc. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

One child spent 3 years and 4 months awaiting trial. (references)

Rwanda

Child soldiers were separated from the adult combatants. (references)

Haiti

Occasionally parents ask a judge to imprison a delinquent child. (references)

Minorities

Dominican Republic

The adopting parents can simply register a child of any age as their own. (references)

United Kingdom

U.N. Committees on both the Rights of the Child and the Elimination of Racial Discrimination expressed similar concerns. (references)

Canada

Provincial authorities had warned the Church of God for several months previously that such severe corporal punishment could constitute child abuse. (references)

Political Economy

Mongolia

Child abuse and child labor also are problems. (references)

DENMARK

Danish export industries do not use child labor. (references)

BULGARIA

The shadow economy fosters child labor violations. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

Our activities address the urgent humanitarian and health needs of the people of Ukraine by: 1) supporting the government in moving from universal housing and communal services subsidies to targeted social services; 2) providing humanitarian assistance and strengthening the ability of non-governmental organizations to deliver social services; 3) laying the foundation for a sustainable system of pensions and social insurance; 4) providing training and supplies to improve the quality of and access to reproductive health care and the screening for and treatment of breast cancer; 5) supporting health partnerships for the promotion of primary health care and exchange of information, training and personnel; 6) providing thyroid cancer screening and psycho-social interventions to child victims of the Chernobyl accident, while strengthening the Ukrainian government's ability to respond to health and environmental crises; and 7) providing technical assistance in addressing both the TB and the STI/HIV/AIDS epidemics. (references)

Travel

Canada

Fines are imposed for non-use of seat belts and child restraints. (references)

Kenya

Passengers on inter-city buses should not accept food or drink from a new acquaintance, even a child, because such food or drink may contain narcotics used to incapacitate a victim and facilitate a robbery. (references)

Women

Poland

Both men and women have the right to claim child sick care. (references)

Tunisia

Either the mother or father may convey citizenship to a child. (references)

Morocco

Women do not automatically lose child custody in divorce cases. (references)

Worker Rights

Ethiopia

Child domestic workers are common. (references)

Denmark

Export industries do not use child labor. (references)

Sri Lanka

Despite legislation, child labor still exists. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The horn or child of beauty

Child of the Lord

Young child

The horn or child of beauty

A child of wisdom

Expressions using "child": a child at the breast ♦ a child prodigy ♦ a very apt child ♦ abandoned child ♦ abnormal child ♦ adopted child ♦ adoption of child ♦ adoptive child ♦ an only child ♦ as a child ♦ as innocent as the child unborn ♦ babe or child ♦ backward child ♦ battered child ♦ Battered Child Syndrome ♦ be delivered of a child ♦ be with child ♦ bear a child ♦ betrothal child ♦ big with child ♦ boy child ♦ brain child ♦ carry child ♦ child abuse ♦ child abuser ♦ Child Advocacy ♦ child allowance ♦ child bearing ♦ Child Behavior ♦ Child Behavior Disorders ♦ child benefit ♦ child birth ♦ child born in lawful wedlock ♦ child care ♦ child care facilities ♦ Child Custody ♦ Child Day Care Centers ♦ child destruction ♦ Child Development ♦ child fare ♦ child file ♦ child guidance ♦ Child Guidance Clinic ♦ Child Guidance Clinics ♦ Child Health Services ♦ Child Language ♦ child medicine, pediatrics ♦ child minder ♦ child minding ♦ child molester ♦ child mortality ♦ child mortality rate ♦ child neglect ♦ Child Nutrition ♦ Child Nutrition Disorders ♦ child object ♦ child of a second venter ♦ child of five ♦ child of fortune ♦ Child of Impaired Parents ♦ child of nature ♦ child of second bed ♦ child of two ♦ child pornography ♦ child process ♦ child prodigy ♦ Child Psychiatry ♦ Child Psychology ♦ Child Reactive Disorders ♦ Child Rearing ♦ child record ♦ child seat ♦ child specialist ♦ Child study ♦ child support ♦ Child Survival and Development Revolution ♦ child task ♦ child under school age ♦ child version ♦ child welfare ♦ child welfare agency ♦ child welfare service ♦ child who cry a lot ♦ child wife ♦ child worker ♦ christ child ♦ cry like a child ♦ delicate child ♦ deliver a child ♦ deprived child ♦ Elf child ♦ exceptional child ♦ expose a child ♦ female child ♦ first child ♦ flower child ♦ Foster child ♦ from a child ♦ frown at a child ♦ future child ♦ gifted child. Additional references.

Beginning with "child": child-abuse, child-actor, child-actors, child-aware, child-based, child-battering, child-bearer, child-bearers, child-bearing, child-beating, child-bed, child-beggars, child-birth, child-boarder, child-bride, child-brother, child-burdened, child-care, child-caring, child-centered, child-centred, child-centredness, child-characters, child-child, child-custody, child-dancing, child-developmental, child-directed, child-dominated, child-drawn, child-eater, child-faced, child-foal, child-free, child-friendliness, child-friendly, child-friendly', child-gazing, child-genius, child-guidance, child-heart, child-initiated, child-in-peril, child-in-the-adult, child-kidnapper, child-killer, child-killing, child-king, child-labour, child-like, child-listening, child-man, child-minder, child-minders, child-minding, child-molester, child-molesters, child-molesting, child-mortality, child-murder, child-murderer, child-murdering, child-obsessed, child-orientated, child-oriented, child-parent, child-pedestrian, child-phobia, child-prodigy, child-proof, child-proofed, child-protection, child-psychologists, Child-pugh, child-quelling, child-raising, child-reading, child-rearers, child-rearing, child-resistant, child-sacrifice, child-safe, child-self, child-sex, child-size, child-sized, child-socialization, child-soiled, child-spacing, child-star, child-survival, child-training, child-victim, child-violation, child-watcher, child-welfare, child-whorish, child-wife, child-woman, child-women, child-world, child-years.

Ending with "child": adult-child, brain-child, christ-child, girl-child, half-child, love-child, mother-child, one-child, parent-child, teacher-child, three-child, two-child.

Containing "child": Father-Child Relations, Maternal-Child Health Centers, Maternal-Child Nursing, mother-and-child-on-beach, Mother-Child Relations, myself-as-child-and-adolescent, Parent-Child Relations, wife-and-child-beater, wise-child-selves.