child

Meaning

Noun

1. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
2. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
3. One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
4. The thirteenth Lenormand card.
5. A figurative offspring
6. A figurative offspring
7. A figurative offspring
8. Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”)
9. A subordinate node of a tree.
10. (obsolete) A female child, a girl.

Verb

To give birth; to beget or procreate.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡ʃaɪld/

Etymology

From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelt- (“womb”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”).
Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”).

Sentences

Since Alfonso-Jordan was still a child , Raymond's soldiers chose William-Jordan as regent .