Noun

child (plural children or (dialectal) childer or (non-standard) childs or (humorous or non-standard) childrens)

1. A daughter or son.

   Her child is in 1st grade.

2. A prepubescent person, a minor.

   That child is up to no good.

   • 1989, United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, PART I, Article 1

     For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.

3. (computing) Some object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another object.

   The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.

Synonyms

• (daughter or son): boy, fruit of one's loins, girl, kid, offspring
• (young person): bairn, boy, brat, girl, kid, lad, lass
• See also Wikisaurus:child

Antonyms

• adult

A child (plural: children) is a human between the stages of birth and puberty. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. "Child" may also describe a relationship with a parent or authority figure, or signify group membership in a clan, tribe, or religion; it can also signify being strongly affected by a specific time, place, or circumstance, as in "a child of nature" or "a child of the Sixties."

Legal definitions

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as "a human being below the age of 18 years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier. Ratified by 192 of 194 member countries. Biologically, a child is anyone in the developmental stage of childhood, between infancy and adulthood.

Quotes regarding children.

See also: Childhood

Contents

• 1 Sourced
  • 1.1 Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
• 2 Unsourced
• 3 See also
• 4 External links

Sourced

• You can't raise a child in a vacuum. All that carpet dust will clog up the kid's lungs.
  • Jacob M. Appel, American playwright, Arborophilia (2005)

• Look around you. Everywhere. They are there. In every home - lurking in dark corners ... small, bi-pedal entities with almost human brains play their games in which adults are the pawns. They play and wait for the time when they will take over the world!
  • John Blair Moore, Invaders from Home, Piranha Press, 1990, Book 1 of 6.

• Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea...Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
  • Jesus Christ, Matthew 18:3-20 (KJV)

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