Word Finder - child

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A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)

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Go easy on him: he is but a child.

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(specifically) A female child, a girl.

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(with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; a son or daughter.

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My youngest child is forty-three this year.

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The thirteenth Lenormand card.

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A figurative offspring, particularly:

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A child of noble birth.

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The cognomen given to the oldest son prior to his taking his father's title.

This child has a wonderful gift.

She was an only child who had been very welcome.

No child ever drank deeper of the cup of bitterness than I did.

It is true that a teacher with ten times Miss Sullivan's genius could not have made a pupil so remarkable as Helen Keller out of a child born dull and mentally deficient.

I asked myself, "How does a normal child learn language?"

The child was indeed very tired.

With much love, from your darling child, HELEN A. KELLER.

Taken altogether, it was a dreadfully long name to weigh down a poor innocent child, and one of the hardest lessons I ever learned was to remember my own name.

Still, as a child she had never thought about it.

If he had been the only child in the family, things might have been different.

This goal is within our grasp—and with the vaccine presently priced at about thirty cents a child, shame on us for not ending polio once and for all.

Her father objected and said that no child of his should be deprived of his food on any account.

His success convinced him that language can be conveyed through type to the mind of the blind-deaf child, who, before education, is in the state of the baby who has not learned to prattle; indeed, is in a much worse state, for the brain has grown in years without natural nourishment.

The attitude of the child toward his books should be that of unconscious receptivity.

After too much heated discussion, I agreed to give a less than specific tip saying I didn't believe the child was abducted.

True, single words do suggest and express ideas; the child may say simply "mamma" when he means "Where is mamma?" but he learns the expression of the ideas that relate to mamma--he learns language--by hearing complete sentences.

Books are the storehouse of language, and any child, whether deaf or not, if he has his attention attracted in any way to printed pages, must learn.

The child, an eight year old girl named Marcia Stonehurst, was still in bed at one o'clock.

The improvement they cannot help seeing in their child has given them more confidence in me.

I realize that it hurts to see their afflicted little child punished and made to do things against her will.

When I was a very little child I used to sit in my mother's lap all the time, because I was very timid, and did not like to be left by myself.

Somehow I had expected to see a pale, delicate child--I suppose I got the idea from Dr. Howe's description of Laura Bridgman when she came to the Institution.

I told her that in my opinion the child ought to be separated from the family for a few weeks at least--that she must learn to depend on and obey me before I could make any headway.

The old man and child were playing checkers in the comfortable den when a housekeeper called them to dinner.

This child, who is from the crust of the earth, like yourself, called you a Wizard.

I thought of the big fire in the queen's kitchen, and knew that the cook would never allow a half-drowned child to be carried into that fine place.

Nancy was not a good child when I went to Memphis.

I know that the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

When Martha was in a session with Howie, Betsy took over, coveting the child as if she were her own.

She was a beautiful child.

I shall never forget the ripple of alternating joy and woe that ran through that beautiful little play, or the wonderful child who acted it.

Love your Heavenly Father with your whole heart and soul, love every child of God as much as ever you can, and remember that the possibilities of good are greater than the possibilities of evil; and you have the key to Heaven.

As we approached the house I saw a child standing in the doorway, and Captain Keller said, There she is.

She ran her fingers along the lines, finding the words she knew and guessing at the meaning of others, in a way that would convince the most conservative of educators that a little deaf child, if given the opportunity, will learn to read as easily and naturally as ordinary children.

He thinks I am still a child.

She was the one who told me that he was a child prodigy.

Being the only child, she was probably over protective of him.

It's about time you stopped acting like a child and...

That left a choice between raising the child on her own or adopting it out.

On the 10th of June 1688 she was present at the birth of the prince of Wales and gave evidence before the council in favour of the genuineness of the child.

In the Luritcha tribe it was customary when a child was in weak health to kill a younger and healthy one and feed the weakling on its flesh.

The child was at first handed over to the care of the Hours, or the nymph Melissa and the centaur Cheiron.

He lost both parents while still a child.

Such incidents were the Damascus charge of ritual murder (1840), the forcible baptism of the Italian child Mortara (1858), and the Russian pogroms at various dates.

They did so, and as the flames lighted up the room, they saw their father enter with a child in his arms.

Then someone else decides to send that child, at eighteen, to another land to kill people and to die?

One child was six years old, the other two or three years older.

The younger child was blind--that was I--and the other was Martha Washington.

It seems as if a child who could see and hear until her nineteenth month must retain some of her first impressions, though ever so faintly.

I can't believe Russ would shirk the responsibility of his own child.