a person between birth and full growth; a boy or girl

books for children.

a son or daughter

All my children are married.

a baby or infant.

a human fetus.

a childish person

He's such a child about money.

a descendant

a child of an ancient breed.

any person or thing regarded as the product or result of particular agencies, influences, etc.

Abstract art is a child of the 20th century.

a person regarded as conditioned or marked by a given circumstance, situation, etc.

a child of poverty; a child of famine.

British Dialect Archaic . a female infant.

Archaic . childe. ?

with child

pregnant

She's with child.

noun

adult

noun

adolescent , anklebiter , babe , baby , bairn , bambino , brat , cherub , chick , cub , descendant , dickens , imp , infant , innocent , issue , juvenile , kid , kiddie , lamb , little angel , little darling , little doll , little one , minor , mite , moppet , neonate , nestling , newborn , nipper , nursling , offspring , preteen , progeny , pubescent , shaver , small fry , sprout , squirt , stripling , suckling , tadpole , teen , teenager , teenybopper , toddler , tot , tyke , urchin * , whippersnapper , young one , youngster , youth , bud , ingnue , naive , scion , bantling , bastard (illegitimate) , ben , boy , changeling , children , cockney (spoiltchild) , daughter , enfant terrible , foundling , girl , lad , lass , orphan , page , posterity , prodigy , ragamuffin , son , tad , urchin , waif , ward , wunderkind