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单词 child
释义

child

/tʃʌɪld /
noun (plural children /ˈtʃɪldr(ə)n/)
1A young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority: she’d been playing tennis since she was a child the film is not suitable for children...
  • The ultrasound probe is used mainly for head scanning of newborn babies and young children.
  • Malnourishment prevents a child from reaching full mental and physical development.
  • Is it inevitable when a baby or a young child gets these autoantibodies that they go on to develop diabetes?

Synonyms

youngster, young one, little one, boy, girl;
baby, newborn, infant, toddler;
schoolboy, schoolgirl, adolescent, teenager, youth, young man, young woman, young lady, young person, young adult, juvenile, minor, junior;
stripling, fledgling, whippersnapper;
son, daughter, son and heir, scion, descendant;
(children) offspring, progeny, issue
technical neonate
Scottish & Northern English bairn, wean, laddie, lassie;
West Indian pickney
informal kid, kiddie, kiddiewink, nipper, tot, tiny, tiny tot, shaver, young 'un, lad, lass, teen, teenybopper
British informal sprog
North American informal rug rat
Australian/New Zealand informal ankle-biter
derogatory brat, chit, urchin, guttersnipe
literary babe, babe in arms
archaic hobbledehoy
1.1A son or daughter of any age: when children leave home, parents can feel somewhat redundant...
  • The couple had three children, a daughter and two sons who work in the business.
  • She said that if she had children she would want daughters like Holly.
  • I have chosen to stay at home to bring up my daughter and any other children that I may choose to have.
1.2An immature or irresponsible person: she’s such a child!
1.3A person who has little or no experience in a particular area: he’s a child in financial matters
1.4 (children) archaic The descendants of a family or people: the children of Abraham
1.5 (child of) A person regarded as the product of (a specified influence or environment): a child of the Sixties...
  • I mean, it is an iD shareware product, the child of a small independent studio.
  • And which child of the Generation Next is interested in collecting greeting cards?
  • What is the destiny that is to be fulfilled, and who is the one true child of it?

Phrases

child's play

from a child

with child

Origin

Old English cild, of Germanic origin. The Middle English plural childer or childre became childeren or children by association with plurals ending in -en, such as brethren.

  • In Anglo-Saxon times child frequently meant a newborn baby, a sense we retain in childbirth (mid 16th century). In the 16th century child was sometimes used to specify a female infant: ‘A very pretty bairn. A boy or a child, I wonder?’ (Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale). On a similar theme, the familiar saying children should be seen and not heard was applied originally not to children but to young women. It was described as early as 1400 as ‘an old English saw’ (or saying) in the form ‘A maid should be seen, but not heard’. It was not until the 19th century that children became the subject.

Rhymes

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