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  1. noun A person between birth and puberty.
  2. noun A person who has not attained maturity or the age of legal majority.
  3. noun An unborn infant; a fetus.
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  • Following the constant crying of the child, some neighbours informed the forces of law and order on January 6 that a child was apparently in serious difficulties in the house. —  Up Station Mountain Club
  • The fact that Obama studied in Jakarta as a child is a remarkable basis to solidify a strong friendship between our countries. —  altmuslim
  • My best friend as a child was a boy named Willie Harper. —  News for Culpeper Star-Exponent
  • The only thing that I didn't understand as a child was their saltine crackers. —  The Facts: News
  • Compared to organised daycare or care by the mother or other relatives, having a grandmother watch a child was associated with a decreased risk of injury for the child. —  RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English cild.

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  1. = Scots chield, chiel, q. v.; from Middle English child, childe (the latter form being properly dative), plural childre, childere, childer, also extended with second plural suffix -en, children, childeren, and even with a third plural suffix -e, childrene, childerne, from Anglo-Saxon cild, plural cild, also cildru and cildra, a child; prob. a modification of *cind = Old Saxon OFries. Middle Dutch, Dutch kind = Middle Low German kint, kind, Low German kind = Old High German Middle High German chind, (German kind, a child, akin to Icelandic kundr, son, and Gothic (Moesogothic) -kunds = Anglo-Saxon -cund, an adjective suffix meaning literally ‘born (of)’; all orig. from past participle of ✓ *kun, *kan, seen in English ken, kin, kind, king, etc.: see ken, kin, kind, can, genus, genesis, etc. The modification of Teut, kind to Anglo-Saxon cild may have been due to the influence of Goth, kilthei, the womb; cf. inkiltho, with child.
  2. from Middle English childen (transitive and intransitive), from Anglo-Saxon *cildian (inferred from cildung, its verbal noun, English childing), from cild, child. Cf. Old High German chin dōn, Middle High German kinden, German kinden, kindeln (= Dutch kinderen), bear a child (from kind, a child), remotely allied to English kindle, from kind, nature.
 

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