Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who toddles, especially a young child learning to walk.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who toddles; especially, an infant or young child.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who toddles; especially, a young child.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A quite young human being, typically two to three years old, but can refer to any child that has started walking, up to about four years old, or at the time they have mastered walking.
  • noun A traffic cone.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a young child

Etymologies

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toddle (“walk unsteadily”) +‎ -er (“(agent)”) – literally “one who walks unsteadily”, hence a young child (not yet able to walk steadily).

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