child
♦♦♦ child /tʃ'aɪld/ (children)
1 [N-COUNT]
A child is a human being who is not yet an adult.
When I was a child I lived in a country village...
He's just a child.
...a child of six...
It was only suitable for children.
2 [N-COUNT]
Someone's children are their sons and daughters of any age.
How are the children?...
The young couple decided to have a child.child ben|efit
[N-UNCOUNT]
In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.child prodi|gy (child prodigies)
[N-COUNT]
A child prodigy is a child with a very great talent.
She was a child prodigy, giving concerts before she was a teenager.in|ner child
[N-SING] oft poss N
Some psychologists refer to a person's childish feelings as his or her inner child.
For me, recovery has been all about finding my inner child and accepting her.love child (love children)
also love-child
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If journalists refer to someone as a love child, they mean that the person was born as a result of a love affair between two people who have never been married to each other.
Eric has a secret love child.post|er child (poster children)
or poster boy poster girl
1 [N-COUNT] oft N for n
If someone is a poster child for a particular cause, characteristic, or activity, they are seen as a very good or typical example of it. (mainly AM)
Zidane has become the poster child for a whole generation of French-born youths of North African extraction...
2 [N-COUNT]
A poster child is a young man or woman who appears on an advertising poster. (mainly AM)
She went out with a Calvin Klein poster boy...street child (street children)
[N-COUNT] usu pl
Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.wild child
[N-SING]
Journalists sometimes use wild child to refer to a teenage girl who enjoys herself in an uncontrolled way, for example by going to a lot of parties. (BRIT)
1 [N-COUNT]
A child is a human being who is not yet an adult.
When I was a child I lived in a country village...
He's just a child.
...a child of six...
It was only suitable for children.
2 [N-COUNT]
Someone's children are their sons and daughters of any age.
How are the children?...
The young couple decided to have a child.child ben|efit
[N-UNCOUNT]
In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.child prodi|gy (child prodigies)
[N-COUNT]
A child prodigy is a child with a very great talent.
She was a child prodigy, giving concerts before she was a teenager.in|ner child
[N-SING] oft poss N
Some psychologists refer to a person's childish feelings as his or her inner child.
For me, recovery has been all about finding my inner child and accepting her.love child (love children)
also love-child
[N-COUNT]
If journalists refer to someone as a love child, they mean that the person was born as a result of a love affair between two people who have never been married to each other.
Eric has a secret love child.post|er child (poster children)
or poster boy poster girl
1 [N-COUNT] oft N for n
If someone is a poster child for a particular cause, characteristic, or activity, they are seen as a very good or typical example of it. (mainly AM)
Zidane has become the poster child for a whole generation of French-born youths of North African extraction...
2 [N-COUNT]
A poster child is a young man or woman who appears on an advertising poster. (mainly AM)
She went out with a Calvin Klein poster boy...street child (street children)
[N-COUNT] usu pl
Street children are homeless children who live outdoors in a city and live by begging or stealing.wild child
[N-SING]
Journalists sometimes use wild child to refer to a teenage girl who enjoys herself in an uncontrolled way, for example by going to a lot of parties. (BRIT)