childrenchil‧dren /ˈtʃɪldrən/ 
Longman Language Activatorto be able to have babies
to be physically able to have a baby: · After the operation will I still be able to have children?
able to have a baby or be the father of a baby: · While most men remain fertile into old age, women do not.
to be unable to have babies · The doctor told the couple that they were unable to have children.
unable to have babies - used especially about women: · New medical techniques provide hope for infertile couples.
unable to have babies or to be the father of a baby, especially when this is a permanent condition: · Susan thought that her illness had made her sterile.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Do you have any dependent children (=who you are still supporting financially)? Deprived children tend to do less well at school. Unaccompanied children are not allowed on the premises. The book is unsuitable for children.
· the children’s author Roald Dahl
Do you have any dependent children (=who you are still supporting financially)? Deprived children tend to do less well at school.· Even young children know the difference between right and wrong.
· an important children’s hospital
(=to be married and have children)· Kevin is married with four children.
· I asked the waiter if there was a children’s menu.
· Enid Blyton is famous for writing children’s stories.
Unaccompanied children are not allowed on the premises. The book is unsuitable for children.· the children’s wear section of the store
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a gaggle of tourists/children etc
the plural of child- First, that it detects the affected or at-risk groups, and second that these can then be referred for suitable treatment.
- Other potential strategies include the provision of vitamin A supplements to at-risk groups.
- I had two grown daughters, and when I lost the first one, this one became the apple of my eye.
- See more of his grown daughter and son.
- Seeing photographs of Rubilove Willcox Aiu in newspapers last Sunday was unexpected and bewildering for her grown children.
- Tall, slender and divorced, Sheila had-incredibly-two grown sons.
- The senator, 72, has a grown daughter by his former wife but is of grandfatherly vintage now.
- Yet her husband, laid off from his job as a messenger, and her grown children are unemployed.
- He leaves a wife and three children.
- Joel Gascoyne died in London 13 February 1705 leaving a wife, Elizabeth.
- Mr Fraser-Smith, who lived in Devon, leaves a wife and two children.
- Professor Brown, who was 47, leaves a wife Evelyn, also an Open University tutor and 3 children.
- The college also offers a creche for two to five-year-olds so that parents can leave children in safe hands.