child English
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Noun
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A daughter or son; an offspring.
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(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
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(figuratively) A thing or abstraction derived from or caused by something.
* 1991 , (w, Midnight's Children) , (Salman Rushdie) (title)
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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.}}
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(computing) A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.
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* 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?
Synonyms
* (daughter or son) boy, fruit of one's loins, girl, kid, offspring
* (young person) bairn, boy, brat, girl, kid, lad, lass
* See also
Antonyms
* (daughter or son) father, mother, parent
* (person below the age of adulthood) adult
* parent
Derived terms
* boomerang child
* childhood
* childish
* childless
* childlike
* love-child
* lovechild
* manchild
* middle child
* only child
* perpetual child
* problem child
* schoolchild
* war child
* with child
Related terms
* chield, chiel
* childe
* Childermas
See also
* orling
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scion English
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*** scion (standard spelling)
Noun
( en noun)
A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant.
A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.
The heir to a throne.
A guardian.
Quotations
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* 1966 , , An Early Passover , Clifton Pub. Co., paperback edition, page 24
*: It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion.
* 1986 , , Penguin, paperback edition, page 72
*: He could show his parents Eliot, scion of Derek Moulthorp, and then how could they say he was throwing his life away?
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