- child
- n.
1) to adopt; bear, give birth to, have a child (she had four children)
2) to carry a child (a mother carries a child for nine months)
3) to beget; conceive a child
4) to bring up, raise, rear a child
5) to feed; nurse; wean a child
6) to indulge, pamper, spoil a child
7) to toilet-train, train a child
8) to acknowledge a child (as one's own)
9) to marry off one's child
10) an adopted; foster; illegitimate, love, natural; legitimate; only; unwanted child
11) a delinquent; disobedient; incorrigible; mischievous; problem; recalcitrant; stubborn; unruly; self-willed, willful; wayward child
12) an indulged, pampered, spoiled child
13) a disciplined, obedient, well-behaved child
14) a bright, gifted, intelligent; sensitive child
15) a precocious; young child
16) a dull, slow; handicapped; retarded; underprivileged child
17) a flower (of the 1960s); latchkey (who comes home to an empty house) child
18) a happy; loving; well-cared for child
19) an abused, mistreated; neglected child
20) a child develops, grows (into adulthood)
21) (misc.) to be with child (old-fashioned) ('to be pregnant')
* * *[tʃaɪld]conceive a childfostergive birth tohandicappedillegitimateincorrigiblelatchkey (who comes home to an empty house) childlovingmischievousmistreatedneglected childonlypamperpamperedrear a childrecalcitrantself-willedsensitive childspoil a childspoiled childtrain a childunderprivileged childunrulyunwanted childwayward childwean a childwell-behaved childwell-cared for childwilfulyoung childgrows (into adulthood)have a child (she had four children)a brighta delinquenta disciplineda dulla happya precociousa child developsan abusedan adoptedan indulgedto adoptto adoptto begetto bring upto feedto indulgeto marry off one's childto toilet-train(misc.) to be with child ('to be pregnant'; old-fashioned)to carry a child (a mother carries a child for nine months)to acknowledge a child (as one's own)a flower (of the 1960s)
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.
