noun
1.
a young person
a movie for both children and adults
Synonyms: bud, chick, chickabiddy, chit, juvenile, kid, moppet, ||nipper, puss, youngling, young one, youngster, youth
Related Word: minor; adolescent, teenager, teener, teenybopper; brat, bratling, dickens, runabout; cherub, innocent, lamb, sweetling
Idioms: a slip of a boy ( or girl), small fry, young hopeful
Antonyms: adult, grown-up
2.
children plural
Synonyms: offspring , ||begats, brood, descendants, issue, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed