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...
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...
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...
Phraseschild's play from a child with child OriginOld 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.
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