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child
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ch?ld, ch???ld, IPA(key): /t??a?ld/, /?t??a?.?ld/
- Rhymes: -a?ld
Etymology 1
From Middle English child, from Old English ?ild (“fetus; female baby; child”), from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *?elt- (“womb”). Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit ???? (jarta), ????? (jártu, “vulva”).
Alternative forms
- childe (archaic)
- (plural): childrens (intentionally incorrect, nonstandard); childs (nonstandard, rare)
Noun
child (plural children or (dialectal or archaic) childer)
- A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)
- (obsolete, specifically) A female child, a girl.
- (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; a son or daughter.
- (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
- (figuratively) A figurative offspring, particularly:
- A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
- Anything derived from or caused by something.
- (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
- 2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed:
- The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
- 2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed:
- A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
- Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”)
- (mathematics) A subordinate node of a tree
Synonyms
- (young person): See Thesaurus:child, Thesaurus:boy, & Thesaurus:girl
- (offspring): See offspring and Thesaurus:son and Thesaurus:daughter, binary clone, progeny, hybrid
- (descendant): See descendant
- (product of a place or era): product, son (male), daughter (female)
Antonyms
- (daughter or son): father, mother, parent
- (person below the age of adulthood): adult
- (data item, process or object in a subordinate role): parent
Derived terms
Related terms
- chield
- Child
- childe
- Childermas
Translations
See also
- orling
Etymology 2
From Middle English childen, from the noun child.
Verb
child (third-person singular simple present childs, present participle childing, simple past and past participle childed)
- (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To give birth; to beget or procreate.
Translations
Further reading
- Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary (accessed November 2007).
- American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company (2003).
Middle English
Alternative forms
- chyld, chylde, childe, chelde, cild
Etymology
From Old English ?ild, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?i?ld/
Noun
child (plural children or childre or child or childres)
- A baby, infant, toddler; a person in infancy.
- A child, kid; a young person.
- An offspring, one of one's progeny.
- A childish or stupid individual.
- (Chrisitanity) The Christ child; Jesus as a child.
- (figuratively) A member of a creed (usually with the religion in the genitive preposing it)
- A young male, especially one employed as an hireling.
- A young noble training to become a knight; a squire or childe.
- The young of animals or plants.
- A material as a result or outcome.
Related terms
Descendants
- English: child
- Scots: child; chield
References
- “ch?ld, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.
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brood
English
Etymology
From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English br?d (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *br?duz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reh?- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: bro?od, IPA(key): /b?u?d/
- Homophones: brewed
- Rhymes: -u?d
Noun
brood (countable and uncountable, plural broods)
- The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
- (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
- (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
- (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii[1]:
- Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant, / And bring thee forth brave brood.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii[1]:
- That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
- 1598, George Chapman translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 2:
- […] flocks of the airy brood,
- Cranes, geese or long-neck'd swans, here, there, proud of their pinions fly […]
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 19:
- Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
- And make the earth devour her own sweet brood […]
- 1598, George Chapman translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 2:
- Parentage.
- (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin
Adjective
brood (not comparable)
- Kept or reared for breeding, said of animals.
- a brood mare
Verb
brood (third-person singular simple present broods, present participle brooding, simple past and past participle brooded)
- (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
- (intransitive) (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
- 1833, Alfred Tennyson:
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 6, The Scarlet Letter:
- 1833, Alfred Tennyson:
- (intransitive) To be bred.
Translations
Further reading
- Brood (honey bee) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Dobro, boord, dobro, droob
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch brood, from Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-Germanic *braud?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /br??t/
Noun
brood (plural brode)
- (countable) A loaf of bread.
- (uncountable) Bread.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-Germanic *braud?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bro?t/
- Hyphenation: brood
- Rhymes: -o?t
Noun
brood n (plural broden, diminutive broodje n)
- (uncountable) Bread.
- (countable) A loaf of bread.
- (countable, by extension) A similar bakery product or other baked dish.
- (uncountable, metonymically) Someone's livelihood, especially in expressions like dagelijks brood.
Derived terms
- bakery products
Descendants
- Afrikaans: brood
Anagrams
- boord
Middle English
Alternative forms
- brod, brode
Etymology
From Old English br?d.
Adjective
brood
- broad
Descendants
- English: broad
- Scots: braid
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