Noun

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A daughter or son; an offspring.

(figuratively) An offspring; one born in, or considered a product of the culture of, a place.

* 1984 , Mary Jane Matz, The Many Lives of Otto Kahn: A Biography , page 5:

For more than forty years, he preached the creed of art and beauty. He was heir to the ancient wisdom of Israel, a child of Germany, a subject of Great Britain, later an American citizen, but in truth a citizen of the world.

(figuratively) A member of a tribe, a people or a race of beings; one born into or considered a product of a people.

* 2009 , Edward John Moreton Dunsany, Tales of Wonder , page 64:

Plash-Goo was of the children of the giants, whose sire was Uph. And the lineage of Uph had dwindled in bulk for the last five hundred years, till the giants were now no more than fifteen foot high; but Uph ate elephants

(figuratively) A thing or abstraction derived from or caused by something.

* 1991 , (w, Midnight's Children) , (Salman Rushdie) (title)

A person who is below the age of adulthood; a minor (person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability).

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child' s life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}

(computing) A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.

* 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed

The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

(obsolete) A female infant; a girl.

* Shakespeare

A boy or a child , I wonder?

Noun

(lb) The quality or state of being young.

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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

(lb) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.

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, volume=101, issue=1, page=62, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Father of Fractals , passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}

(lb) A young person.

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(lb) A young man.

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*:and then a youth appeared—no one quite knew where from or to whom he belonged—but he settled down with them in a happy-go-lucky way, and they all lived together.

(lb) (used in plural form ) Young persons, collectively.