child

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A person between birth and puberty.
2. n. A person who has not attained maturity or the age of legal majority.
3. n. An unborn infant; a fetus.
4. n. An infant; a baby.
5. n. One who is childish or immature.
6. n. A son or daughter; an offspring.
7. n. A member of a tribe; descendant: children of Abraham.
8. n. An individual regarded as strongly affected by another or by a specified time, place, or circumstance: a child of nature; a child of the Sixties.
9. n. A product or result of something specified: "Times Square is a child of the 20th century” ( Richard F. Shepard).
10. idiom. with child Pregnant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A male or female descendant in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; a son or daughter: used in direct reference to the parentage of the person spoken of, without regard to sex.
2. n. A descendant more remote than the first degree; a descendant, however remote: as, the children of Israel.
3. n. plural The inhabitants of a country: as, “the children of Seir,” 2 Chron. xxv. 11.
4. n. Specifically, a very young person; one not old enough to dispense with maternal aid and care. See childhood.
5. n. Figuratively, a childish man or woman; one who resembles a child in lack of knowledge, experience, or judgment.
6. n. In general, anything regarded as the offspring or product of something which is specified; product; result: as, disease is the child of intemperance; children of darkness.
7. n. A girl.
8. n. In old and poetical usage, a noble youth; a youth, especially one of high birth, before he was advanced to the honor of knighthood; a squire: also applied to a knight.
9. n. A person in general.
10. n. More especially, an illegitimate child; one who is actually the child but not the lawful issue of the suggested parent.
11. n. Synonyms plural Offspring, issue, progeny.
12. To produce children; brinig forth offspring.
13. To bring forth as a child.

Wiktionary

1. n. A daughter or son; an offspring.
2. n. figuratively An offspring; one born in, or considered a product of the culture of, a place.
3. n. figuratively A member of a tribe, a people or a race of beings; one born into or considered a product of a people.
4. n. figuratively A thing or abstraction derived from or caused by something.
5. n. A person who is below the age of adulthood; a minor (person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability).
6. n. computing A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.
2. n. A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural.
3. n. One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place, occupation, character, etc..
4. n. obsolete A noble youth. See Childe.
5. n. A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc.
6. n. obsolete A female infant.
7. v. To give birth; to produce young.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
2. n. a young person of either sex
3. n. an immature childish person
4. n. a member of a clan or tribe