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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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spawn
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Etymology 1
Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out; spread out”, verb). Doublet of expand. Compare also Middle English spalden, spolden, spawden (“to cut open (a fish)”).
Verb
spawn (third-person singular simple present spawns, present participle spawning, simple past and past participle spawned)
- (transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
- (transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
- (transitive) To bring forth in general.
- The Web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
- (transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
- (transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
- (intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
- (intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
- (ergative, video games, of a character or object) (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English spawne, from the verb (see above).
Noun
spawn (plural spawn or spawns)
- The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
- Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
- (by extension, sometimes derogatory) Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring.
- (horticulture) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
- (video games) The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear.
Derived terms
- hellspawn
Translations
Anagrams
- WPANs, pawns
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