Definition of Child

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Definition of Child

Child

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.

A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.

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.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people.

A noble youth. See Childe.

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.

A female infant.

To give birth; to produce young.

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Child Quotations

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
Marilyn Monroe

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Ronald Reagan

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Bill Cosby

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
Bill Cosby

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby

Child Translations

child in Afrikaans is kind
child in Danish is barn
child in Dutch is jong, loot, kind, afstammeling
child in French is enfant
child in German is Kind
child in Hungarian is gyermek, gyerek
child in Italian is fanciullo, fanciulla, fanciullesco
child in Latin is parvulus, liber
child in Norwegian is barn
child in Swedish is barn

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