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. Related Definitions: Also, And, Another, As, Between, Birth, By, Character, Child, Childe, Children, Closely, Connected, Daughter, Degree, Descendant, Devil, Disobedience, Either, Female, First, Give, God, Hence, However, Human, Immediate, In, Infancy, Infant, Influence, Innocence, Law, Legitimate, Limited, Male, Noble, Obedience, Occupation, Of, Offspring, One, Or, People, Person, Place, Plural, Practice, Produce, Progeny, Relationship, Remote, See, Sex, Son, The, To, Toil, Understanding, Used, Very, Who, With, Young, Youth

Child Quotations 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 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 We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child. Ronald Reagan How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! William Shakespeare It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare A child miseducated is a child lost. John F. Kennedy Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. John F. Kennedy For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. Friedrich Nietzsche

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