transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈchī(-ə)ld ]
noun
( plural chil·dren ˈchil-drən, -dərn)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English cild; akin to Gothic kilthei womb, and perhaps to Sanskrit jaṭhara belly
Date: before 12th century
1.
a. : an unborn or recently born person
b. dialect : a female infant
2.
a. : a young person especially between infancy and youth
b. : a childlike or childish person
c. : a person not yet of age
3. usually childe ˈchī(-ə)ld archaic : a youth of noble birth
4.
a. : a son or daughter of human parents
b. : descendant
5. : one strongly influenced by another or by a place or state of affairs
6. : product , result
barbed wire…is truly a child of the plains — W. P. Webb
• child·less ˈchī(-ə)l(d)-ləs adjective
• child·less·ness noun
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- with child