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(n)
A young person.
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A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
A male child.
A female child, especially one younger than ten years of age.
A female child.
(British, informal) A small fish, especially a stickleback.
(British, informal) A child.
A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
A boorish person.
(colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
(informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
(usually in the plural, fries, chiefly Canada and US, cooking) A fried piece of cut potato.
A small, young bird that is still confined to the nest.
(idiomatic) One or more relatively small and insignificant individuals or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
a youthful female person
a youthful male person
A person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive).
Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).
(often as if a plural noun) Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.
A deficit or shortfall in funds, inventory, or capacity.
A person younger than the age of majority; a minor.
The state of being an infant.
The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
A young child who has started walking but not fully mastered it, typically between one and three years old.
A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
(adj)
Childish; immature.
(countable) The childhood of a boy.
Suitable for or expected of a child.
(US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) A child.
(slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman. [from 20th c.]
(derogatory, slang) A physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence.
(psychiatry, sexology) An adult or older adolescent who is sexually attracted to prepubescent children.
(numismatics) Subdivision of currency used in many Arab countries.
One's male offspring.
An adopted son or daughter.
One’s female offspring.
(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
A son of one's child.
A child of someone's child.
(uncountable, informal) Pornography.
The explicit literary or visual depiction of sexual subject matter; any display of material of an erotic nature.
(chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
(uncountable) The act, practice, or occupation of supervising and taking care of young children.
A daycare centre.
(derogatory) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
(informal) A small amount; a little bit.
(uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
(countable) A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife.
a thing that is of smaller size, value, importance etc.
A smaller amount or quantity.
Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
A heavy load.
The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
A bicycle suspension fork component.
(usually uncountable) Urine.
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
(slang) The testicles.
Of, like, or suitable for a child.
That which overflows; the excess or side effect.
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
Close attention; concern; responsibility.
A boy attending school.
(philosophy) Something of the smallest possible extent; an indivisible unit.
(adv)
(with a superlative adjective) Beyond all others.
A recently born baby.
(anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.
A pregnant person.
A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
(Commonwealth) Standard spelling of pediatric.
(American spelling) Of or pertaining to pediatrics, the branch of medicine dealing with the care and treatment of children and adolescents.
(Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of fetus. [An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.]
(Canada, US, Australia, India) An educational institution for young children, usually between ages 4 and 6; nursery school.
A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
A young dog, especially before sexual maturity (12–18 months)
(agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
(mostly plural) An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
(uncountable) A twisted strand of fibre used for knitting or weaving.
A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
A depletion in the body's natural immune system, or in some component of it.
(sciences, slang) The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, a frequently used reference work published by CRC Press.
A person who works in a mine.
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
A diminutive of Bertram, Albert or of any male given names ending in -bert.
A surname.
(N)
"Babies" is a song written and released by British rock group Pulp.
(international law) Abbreviation of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.