child

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English ċild (“child, infant, youth of gentle birth”), from Proto-Germanic *kildiz (“child in the womb, fruit of the womb, child”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(')elt- (“womb”). Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit  (jarta),  (jártu, “vulva”).

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child (plural children or (dialectal) childer)

  1. A daughter or son.
    Her child is in 1st grade.
    My youngest child is forty-three.
  2. A person who is below the age of adulthood; a minor (person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability).
    Go easy on him: he is but a child.
  3. (computing) A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.
    The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.

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  • (daughter or son): father, mother, parent
  • (person below the age of adulthood): adult
  • (data item, process or object in a subordinate role): parent

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a female or male child, a daughter or son
a minor
some object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another object
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