child

Definitions


[tʃʌɪld], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority
(e.g: she'd been playing tennis since she was a child)


Phrases:
- child's play
- from a child
- with child

Origin:
Old English cild, of Germanic origin. The Middle English plural childer or childre became childeren or children by association with plurals ending in -en, such as brethren




definition by Oxford Dictionaries