child

[ chahyld ]

/ tʃaɪld /

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noun, plural chil·dren.

a person between birth and full growth; a boy or girl: books for children.

a son or daughter: All my children are married.

a baby or infant.

a human fetus.

a childish person: He's such a child about money.

a descendant: a child of an ancient breed.

any person or thing regarded as the product or result of particular agencies, influences, etc.: Abstract art is a child of the 20th century.

a person regarded as conditioned or marked by a given circumstance, situation, etc.: a child of poverty; a child of famine.

British Dialect Archaic. a female infant.

Archaic. childe.

Idioms for child

with child, pregnant: She's with child.

Origin of child

before 950; Middle English; Old English cild; akin to Gothic kilthai womb

OTHER WORDS FROM child

child·less, adjective child·less·ness, noun

Words nearby child

chikee, chil-, chilalgia, chilblain, chilcat, child, child abuse, child benefit, child bride, child custody, child endowment

Example sentences from the Web for childless

Nor is it true that childless people are doomed, as the pope warned, to be lonely and sad in their old age.

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The fact of the matter is that what the planet probably needs now is more people picking the childless lifestyle.

Pope Francis Is Wrong About My Child-Free Life |Amanda Marcotte |June 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The answer keeps coming back the same: Childless couples have happier marriages, on average.

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Since they were childless, Anne became next in line for the crown.

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But for childless singles, the income range that qualified for help is much smaller.

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Rachel's cry, "Give me children, or else I die," does not exaggerate the agony of a childless Syrian wife.

The Syrian Christ |Abraham Mitrie Rihbany
The old judge's high voice grew husked and roughened here, he being himself both widowed and childless.

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Her only boy had starved to death at the cabins, and now she was childless.

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When a mere boy he was sent to the court of his granduncle, Sten Sture the Elder, who was childless.

Sweden |Victor Nilsson
If I had been a casual passer-by, I should have probably supposed that some childless person lay dead in it.

The Personal History of David Copperfield |Charles Dickens

British Dictionary definitions for childless

child

/ (tʃaɪld) /

noun plural children

a boy or girl between birth and puberty
(as modifier)child labour

a baby or infant

an unborn baby Related prefix: paedo-

with child another term for pregnant

a human offspring; a son or daughter Related adjective: filial

a childish or immature person

a member of a family or tribe; descendant a child of Israel

a person or thing regarded as the product of an influence or environment a child of nature

Midland English and Western English dialect a female infant

Derived forms of child

childless, adjective childlessness, noun childly, adjective

Word Origin for child

Old English cild; related to Gothic kilthei womb, Sanskrit jathara belly, jartu womb

Medical definitions for childless

child

[ chīld ]

n.

A person who has not yet reached puberty.

A son or daughter; an offspring.

A person not of legal age; a minor.

Idioms and Phrases with childless

child

In addition to the idiom beginning with child

, also see

second childhood

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child

noun, plural chil·dren.

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Origin of child

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British Dictionary definitions for childless

noun plural children

Derived forms of child

Word Origin for child

Medical definitions for childless

n.

Idioms and Phrases with childless

BROWSE DICTIONARY

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child

noun, plural chil·dren.

Idioms for child

Origin of child

OTHER WORDS FROM child

Words nearby child

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noun plural children

Derived forms of child

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n.

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