Entry Word: child

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a young person who is between infancy and adulthood <an imaginative animated film that appeals to adults as well as to children>

Synonyms bairn [chiefly Scottish], cub, juvenile, kid, youngster, youth

Related Words adolescent, minor; schoolboy, schoolchild, schoolgirl; moppet, nestling, toddler, tot, tyke; brat, imp, squirt, urchin, whippersnapper; cherub; preteen, subteen, teenager, teenybopper; lad, nipper, shaver, stripling, tad; bobby-soxer, hoyden, tomboy

Near Antonyms golden-ager, oldster, senior citizen

Antonyms adult, grown-up

2 a recently born person <wrapped the child in a blanket before taking him outside in the cold> — see baby