child
noun
[ tʃʌɪld ]
• a 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"
Similar:
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,
offspring,
progeny,
issue,
neonate,
bairn,
wean,
laddie,
lassie,
pickney,
kid,
kiddie,
kiddiewink,
nipper,
tot,
tiny,
tiny tot,
shaver,
young 'un,
lad,
lass,
teen,
teenybopper,
sprog,
rug rat,
ankle-biter,
babe,
babe in arms,
hobbledehoy,
brat,
chit,
urchin,
guttersnipe,
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 .
