Tra từ child - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

child [child children] BrE [tʃaɪld] NAmE [tʃaɪld] noun (pl. chil·drenBrE [ˈtʃɪldrən] ; NAmE [ˈtʃɪldrən] )
1. a young human who is not yet an adult
•a child of three/a three-year-old child
•men, women and children
•an unborn child
•not suitable for young children
• I lived in London as a child.
•a child star
see also ↑brainchild, ↑latchkey child, ↑poster child, ↑schoolchild
2. a son or daughter of any age
• They have three grown-up children.
•a support group for adult children of alcoholics
• They can't have children.
see also ↑godchild, ↑grandchild, ↑love child, ↑only child, ↑stepchild
compare ↑kid
3. a person who is strongly influenced by the ideas and attitudes of a particular time or person
•a child of the 90s
4. (disapproving)an adult who behaves like a child and is not ↑mature or responsible
Idioms: ↑child's play ▪ ↑with child

Word Origin:
Old English cild, of Germanic origin. The Middle English plural childer or childre became childeren or children by association with plurals ending in -en, such as brethren.

Thesaurus:
child noun
1. C
•a child of three/a three-year-old child
boy • • girl • • toddler • • baby • |informal kid • • youngster • • lad • |formal technical infant • |informal, disapproving brat • |law minor • • juvenile •
Opp: adult, Opp: grown-up
a young child/boy/girl/baby/kid/infant
a little child/boy/girl/baby/kid/brat
look after/take care of a child/baby/kid
Child or kid? Kid is much more frequent in informal and spoken American English. Child is not often used of sb older than about 12; above that age you can call them kids, teenagers, young people, girls, youths or lads.
2. C
•She has three children
son • • daughter • • boy • • girl • • baby • • kid •
a newborn child/son/daughter/boy/girl/baby
have/give birth to a child/son/daughter/boy/girl/baby/kid
bring up/raise a child/son/daughter/boy/girl/kid

Collocations:
Children
Having a baby/child
want a baby/a child/kids
start a family
conceive/be expecting/be going to have a baby/child
miss your period
become/get/ be/find out that you are pregnant
have a baby/a child/kids/a son/a daughter/twins/a family
have a normal/a difficult/an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/a difficult/a home birth
be in/go into/induce labour (especially US) labor
have/suffer/cause a miscarriage
give birth to a child/baby/daughter/son/twins
Parenting
bring up/ (especially NAmE) raise a child/family
care for/ (especially BrE) look after a baby/child/kid
change (BrE) a nappy/(NAmE) a diaper/a baby
feed/breastfeed/bottle-feed a baby
be entitled to/go on maternity/paternity leave
go back/return to work after maternity leave
need/find/get a babysitter/good quality affordable childcare
balance/combine work and childcare/child-rearing/family life
educate/teach/home-school a child/kid
punish/discipline/spoil a child/kid
adopt a baby/child/kid
offer a baby for/put a baby up for adoption
(especially BrE) foster a child/kid
be placed with/be raised by foster parents

Example Bank:
•After they divorced, he refused to pay child support.
•Children grow up so quickly!
•He had old-fashioned ideas on how to bring up children.
•He's always been a problem child.
•How many children do you have?
•It was a bit lonely being an only child.
•My father died while I was still a small child.
•She couldn't imagine the pain of losing a child at birth.
•She didn't have her first child until she was nearly forty.
•She works in a centre for delinquent children.
•Teaching is particularly difficult when a class contains both slow and bright children.
•The children were quite unruly and ran around the house as if they owned it.
•Their first child was born with a rare heart condition.
•There are a lot of street children in the poorer parts of the city.
•They are expecting a child in June.
•We had trouble conceiving our first child.
•We have three teenage children.
•We've got three teenage children.
•What a precocious child— reading Jane Austen at the age of ten!
•You can't spoil a child by giving it all the affection it wants.
•a child custody dispute between divorced parents
•a school for gifted children
•an organization that campaigns for the rights of the unborn child
•big with child
•good food for growing children
•tax concessions for families with dependent children
•the bastard child of romantic fiction and horror.
•the emotional connections which ensure healthy child development
•therapy for sexually abused children
•All the children learn to swim from an early age.
•She was a child star but never made it as an adult.
•The book is aimed at the parents of pre-school children.
•The film is not suitable for young children.
•a child of three/a three-year-old child
•He took the children to Disneyland.
•I'm an only child.
•Will you put the children to bed