child

1. (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).Examples: "Go easy on him: he is but a child."; "And not just the children, teenagers too. Chuck wants a football, Kathleen a tattoo."; "It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries."Synonyms: kidbroadly

2. (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).Synonyms: kidbroadlysometimes

3. (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.Examples: "My youngest child is forty-three this year."; "His adult children visit him yearly."Synonyms: descendant

4. (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.

5. (figurative) A figurative offspring, particularly:Examples: "the children of Israel"; "He is a child of his times."; "For more than forty years, he preached the creed of art and beauty. He was heir to the ancient wisdom of Israel, a child of Germany, a subject of Great Britain, later an American citizen, but in truth a citizen of the world."Synonyms: product, son, daughterfiguratively

6. (figurative) A figurative offspring, particularly:Examples: "Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war."figuratively