Usually means: Young human below adult age.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word child:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Child, child: Merriam-Webster
  2. child: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. child: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. child: Collins English Dictionary
  5. child: Vocabulary.com
  6. Child, child, child: Wordnik
  7. child: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Child, child: Wiktionary
  9. child: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. child: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. child: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Child, child: Dictionary.com
  13. child: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. child: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Child (archetype), Child (band), Child (disambiguation), Child (hieroglyph), Child (magazine), Child (song), Child, The Child (Inside), The Child (Star Wars), The Child (Star Wars character), The Child (The Mandalorian): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Child: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. child: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. child: Rhymezone
  19. child: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. child: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. child: FreeDictionary.org
  22. child: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Child: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. child: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. child: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. child: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. child: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. child: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. MSN Money (No longer online)
  8. child: Legal dictionary
  9. Child: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. child: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. child: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. child: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. child: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  6. child: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHILD: Acronym Finder
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. child: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Child: Easton Bible

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Child: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. child, child: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. child: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See childing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
noun:  (pediatrics, sometimes, in a stricter sense) A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.
noun:  (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
noun:  (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
noun:  (figurative) A figurative offspring, particularly:
noun:  A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
noun:  Anything derived from or caused by something.
noun:  (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
noun:  (mathematics, programming) A subordinate node of a tree.
noun:  (obsolete, specifically) A female child, a girl.
verb:  (archaic, ambitransitive) To give birth; to beget or procreate.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”) [A child of noble birth.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of child often used when referring to God (Jesus) or another important child who is understood from context.

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