child

Universal Words 1 a young human being who is not yet an adult: a child of three / a three-year-old child * men, women and children * an unborn child * not suitable for young children * I lived in London as a child. * a child star seealsoBRAINCHILD, LATCHKEYCHILD, SCHOOLCHILD 2 a son or daughter of any age: They have three grown-up children. * a support group for adult children of alcoholics seealsoGODCHILD, GRANDCHILD, LOVECHILD, ONLYCHILD, STEPCHILD compareKID 3 a person who is strongly influenced by the ideas and attitudes of a particular time or person: a child of the 90s 4 (disapproving) an adult who behaves like a child and is not MATURE or responsible IDIOMS be with child (old-fashioned) to be pregnant be child's play (informal) to be very easy to do, so not even a child would find it difficult