child
/tʃaɪld/
#173 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
A young person who is not yet grown up, or someone's son or daughter.
Word origin
From Old English cild, meaning a young person or baby; the old plural cildru gives us children.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- cild
Grammar
Gender
Pluralchildrenirregular
Examples
child is playing garden.
"Child" means a young person.
children went school.
"Children" is the irregular plural of "child".
has child wants another.
"Child" here means a son or daughter.
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