child: Meaning and Definition of

child

1. a person between birth and full growth; a boy or girl: books for children.
2. a son or daughter: All my children are married.
3. a baby or infant.
4. a childish person: He's such a child about money.
5. a descendant: a child of an ancient breed.
6. any person or thing regarded as the product or result of particular agencies, influences, etc.: Abstract art is a child of the 20th century.
7. a person regarded as conditioned or marked by a given circumstance, situation, etc.: a child of poverty; a child of famine.
8. a human fetus.
9. a female infant.
10. childe.
11. pregnant: She's with child.

Child

1. 1802–80, U.S. author, abolitionist, and social reformer.