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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- childer (archaic, except in Ireland)
- childs (nonstandard, rare)
- chillen, chillun, chirren (eye dialect)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English children, alteration of earlier childre ("children"; > English dialectal childer), from Old English ċildru, ċildra (“children”), nominative and accusative plural of ċild (“child”), equivalent to child + -ren.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK, US, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/
- (Southern American English, AAVE) IPA(key): [tʃɪl.ɹən]
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɪl.d̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷən]
Audio (US) (file)
- (UK dialectal, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃʊldɹən/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃʊld̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷən]
- (Hong Kong) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/, (proscribed) /ˈt͡ʃɪl.dən/
- Rhymes: -ɪldɹən, -ʊldɹən
- Hyphenation: chil‧dren
Noun[edit]
children
- plural of child.
- 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
- Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From childre (“children”) with a pleonastic addition of the plural suffix -en; compare calveren, eyren, lambren.
Noun[edit]
children
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