child betydelse and definition

Betydelse av child på svenska

• 0 a boy or girl from the time of birth until he or she is an adult, or a son or daughter of any age:

  • an eight-year-old child

  • As a child I didn't eat vegetables.

  • A small group of children waited outside the door.

  • Both her children are now married with children of their own.

  • Jan is married with three young children.

  • He's such a child if he doesn't get his own way.

  • Me, I'm a child of the 60s.

• 1 a person from the time of birth until he or she is an adult, or a son or daughter of any age:

  • Jan has a three-year-old child and two school-age children.

  • Now in their 60s, Jerome and Sally have two grown children (= adult sons or daughters).