+ Search by Radical
Search for
Listen
Print Font Size
Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- child [tʃaɪld]
-
-
1.
n
a boy or girl between birth and puberty
-
2.
n
(as modifier)
- child labour
-
3.
n
a baby or infant
-
4.
n
an unborn baby paedo-
-
5.
n
another term for pregnant
-
6.
n
a human offspring; a son or daughter
-
7.
n
a childish or immature person
-
8.
n
a member of a family or tribe; descendant
- a child of Israel
-
9.
n
a person or thing regarded as the product of an influence or environment
- a child of nature
-
10.
n
[Midland and Western English]
[dialect]
a female infant
-
11.
n
[Etymology]
Old English cild; related to Gothic kilthei womb, Sanskrit jathara belly, jartu womb
-
1.
n
a boy or girl between birth and puberty
Examples
- More than twenty years after it introduced its one-child policy, China is keeping its promise,allowing only-children who marry each other to have a second child.
- 在宣布独生子女政策后的二十多年以来,中国政府一直履行着承诺, 允许由独生子女组成的家庭有第二个孩子。
- Don't act the child.
- 别作孩子气。 → act
- a child named after Lincoln
- 一个以林肯命名的孩子 → after
- Any child can do it.
- 每个小孩都会做。 → any
- He is but a child.
- 他只不过是个孩子。 → but
- a nurse charged with the care of a child
- 负责照管某孩子的女保姆 → charge
- a child of the Renaissance
- 文艺复兴时期的人物 → child
- a child of one's imagination
- 想象的产物 → child
- The word child is of common gender.
- child一词是通性的。 → common
- the delicacy of a child's face
- 小孩脸蛋的娇嫩 → delicacy
Would you like to know more about this word? Simply click the button on the right to ask real people.
You can also check your questions and answers at ‘ My nciku > Posts ’.
Idioms + Phrasal Verbs
Thesaurus
Revised Vocab Lists
This word has been edited
3 time(s) by users.
Conversations
Related Words
Recently Reviewed Words
Content partners 
