child – English noun declension

English noun forms of child

Noun: child
Singularchild
Pluralchildren

Sample Sentences

  • Go easy on him: he is but a child.
  • Regular chores can be appropriate for children, given age-appropriate limits on difficulty level and time on task.
  • And not just the children, teenagers too. Chuck wants a football, Kathleen a tattoo. [2003 Powerpuff Girls: 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas (narration)]
  • 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. [2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:]
  • In one case, a mother was deported and took her 2-year-old child with her, while the other involves another mother deported and her 4- and 7-year-old children went with her, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Project, among other organizations, said in a news release Friday. [2025 April 27, Dakin Andone, “3 children who are US citizens — including one with cancer — deported with their mothers, lawyers and advocacy groups say”, in CNN:]
  • My youngest child is forty-three this year.
  • His adult children visit him yearly.
  • the children of Israel
  • He is a child of his times.
  • 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. [1984, Mary Jane Matz, The Many Lives of Otto Kahn: A Biography, page 5:]
  • 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[…] [2009, Edward John Moreton Dunsany, Tales of Wonder, page 64:]
  • Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war. [1991, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children:]
  • The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.
  • The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf). [2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed:]
  • My husband is such a child, going out with his sled everytime it snows.
  • A boy, or a Childe I wonder? [c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 288, column 2:]

Nouns inflected like child

child,

Etymology

1. From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelt- (“womb”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”).
2. Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”). See: Middle English Nouns 'child', Danish Nouns 'kuld', Swedish Nouns 'kull', Icelandic Nouns 'kelta', Gothic Nouns '𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹'.

Verbs referencing "child"

English Nouns kilt, Gothic Nouns 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹.