- child⇄child, noun, pl.children.
1. a young boy or girl.
Ex. games for children. The oldest child has a place of honor in most families (Sidonie M. Gruenberg). The child is father of the man (William Wordsworth).
2a. a son or daughter.
E - child⇄expr. with child, (Archaic.) pregnant.
Ex. Such doubts and fears were common to her state, being with child (Tennyson).