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Antonyms for child
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Wiktionary2.3 / 3 votes

  1. childnoun

    A daughter or son.

    Antonyms:
    father, mother, parent

    Synonyms:
    offspring, girl, kid, boy, fruit of ones loins

  2. childnoun

    A person who is below the age of adulthood; a minor .

    Go easy on him: he is but a child.

    Antonyms:
    adult

    Synonyms:
    boy, girl, kid, offspring, fruit of ones loins

  3. childnoun

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

    The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.

    Synonyms:
    kid, boy, girl, offspring, fruit of ones loins

  4. childnoun

    Synonyms:
    boy, kid, girl, brat, lass, lad, bairn

  5. childnoun

    Antonyms:
    parent

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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestlingnoun

    a young person of either sex

    "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

    Antonyms:
    parent

    Synonyms:
    chela, kid, nestling, tiddler, pip-squeak, claw, electric razor, nipper, shaver, pincer, kidskin, boor, peasant, barbarian, squirt, churl, tyke, minor, tike, small fry, youngster, electric shaver, baby bird, fry, baby

  2. child, kidnoun

    a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age

    "they had three children"; "they were able to send their kids to college"

    Antonyms:
    parent

    Synonyms:
    nestling, tiddler, fry, youngster, baby, shaver, tyke, nipper, minor, kid, small fry, kidskin, tike

  3. child, babynoun

    an immature childish person

    "he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived"; "stop being a baby!"

    Antonyms:
    parent

    Synonyms:
    nestling, tiddler, fry, babe, sister, youngster, baby, shaver, tyke, nipper, minor, kid, small fry, tike, infant

  4. childnoun

    a member of a clan or tribe

    "the children of Israel"

    Antonyms:
    parent

    Synonyms:
    nestling, tiddler, fry, youngster, baby, shaver, tyke, nipper, minor, kid, small fry, tike

How to use child in a sentence?

  1. Frank Luntz:

    They won't say it, but behind his back, they think he's a child. They're laughing at him... Donald Trump isn't the same man Donald Trump was a year ago. Even many Republicans are tired of going back and rehashing the 2020 election.

  2. Laura Lindberg:

    One of the major concerns is that the child has a greater chance of being raised in poverty and the mother's education and employment may be limited [and] the father may be less involved.

  3. David Panzirer:

    I kind of fell into the best job in the world, i get the opportunity to impact my child's disease ... with the understanding I have a much bigger responsibility.

  4. Caylee Carullo:

    I really onlyuse positive reinforcement and I've seen students go from the most disruptive child in the room to my best little buddy that I can always count on to help me with anything.

  5. Ketanji Brown Jackson:

    I guess my thought is…that there are people who get involved with this kind of activity who may not be pedophiles who may not be necessarily interested really in the child pornography but have other motivations with respect to the use of the technology and the being in the group and, you know, there are lots of reasons why people might engage in this, and so I’m wondering whether you could say that there is a -- that there could be a less-serious child pornography offender who is engaging in the type of conduct in the group experience level because their motivation is the challenge, or to use the technology?

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#655child
#821adult
#1430mother
#1692father
#1771parent

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