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Child

noun

(pl. children)

A young person of either sex. Synonyms: fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster. "They're just kids" , "'tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

A human offspring (son or daughter) of any age. Synonym: kid. "They were able to send their kids to college" Antonym: parent.

An immature childish person. Synonym: baby. "Stop being a baby!"

A member of a clan or tribe.

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"Child" Quotes from Famous Books

... father said angrily. "This is no concern of a child like you." When the door closed behind the girl he said ...

— The Bravest of the Brave - or, with Peterborough in Spain • G. A. Henty

... succeeded it. When Baeza's match went out there was no light anywhere; from a room somewhere above came a sound of quarrelling voices—a woman's voice high and shrill, a man's voice hoarse and drunken, and, as an accompaniment, the wailing of a child wakened from ...

— The Summons • A.E.W. Mason

... present. I would walk without drinking, so as not to excite my thirst," replied the child archly, who had failed to be convinced by ...

— Adventures of a Young Naturalist • Lucien Biart

... longed for, on this or that part of the body. And, what is still more, and approaches to a prodigy, upon the mother being terrified by a sudden injury done to any one part, that very part in the child suffers the same evil, and decays for want of nourishment. I know that the truth of stories of this kind, is called in doubt by some physicians; because they cannot conceive, how such things can happen. But many examples, of which I have been an eye-witness, have ...

— Medica Sacra - or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned - in the Holy Scriptures • Richard Mead

... up. You explain a Fringing Reef as a reef which is formed round land comparatively stationary; an Encircling Reef as one which is formed round land going down; and an Atoll as a reef formed upon land gone down; and the thing is so simple that a child may understand it when it is ...

— Coral and Coral Reefs • Thomas H. Huxley

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