child
Webster Dictionary
one who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people
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foster-parent
(foster-parent, foster parent)
Princeton's WordNet
a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child
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adoption
(adoption)
Princeton's WordNet
a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
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adopt
Webster Dictionary
to take by choice into relationship, as, child. heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child
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bastard
Webster Dictionary
a "natural" child. a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child. one born of an illicit union
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pregnant
(ˈprɛg nənt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
having a child or other offspring developing in the body; with child or young, as a woman or female mammal.
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birth parent
(ˈbɜrθˌmɑrk)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a parent who has conceived or sired rather than adopted a child and whose genes are therefore transmitted to the child.
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tooth fairy
(ˈtuθˌbrʌʃ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a fairy credited with leaving a child money or a small gift in exchange for a baby tooth placed under the child's pillow.
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adopt
(əˈdɒpt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to take and rear (the child of others) as one's own child. specifically by a formal legal act.
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lastborn
(ˈlæstˌbɔrn, ˈlɑst-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a child who is born last in a family; youngest child.
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brat
(æt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a child. esp. an annoying, spoiled, or impolite child.
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hobby
(hobby, hobbyhorse, rocking horse)
Princeton's WordNet
a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride
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hobbyhorse
(hobby, hobbyhorse, rocking horse)
Princeton's WordNet
a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride
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rocking horse
(hobby, hobbyhorse, rocking horse)
Princeton's WordNet
a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride
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bastardy proceeding
(paternity suit, bastardy proceeding)
Princeton's WordNet
a lawsuit filed to determine the father of a child born out of wedlock (and to provide for the support of the child once paternity is determined)
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paternity suit
(paternity suit, bastardy proceeding)
Princeton's WordNet
a lawsuit filed to determine the father of a child born out of wedlock (and to provide for the support of the child once paternity is determined)
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adoptive parent
(adoptive parent, adopter)
Princeton's WordNet
a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child
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adopter
(adoptive parent, adopter)
Princeton's WordNet
a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child
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infant
Webster Dictionary
a child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age
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adoption
Webster Dictionary
the act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child
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auf
Webster Dictionary
a changeling or elf child. -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child. a simpleton; an oaf
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childlike
Webster Dictionary
resembling a child. or that which belongs to children; becoming a child. meek; submissive; dutiful
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oaf
Webster Dictionary
originally, an elf's child. a changeling left by fairies or goblins; hence, a deformed or foolish child. a simpleton; an idiot
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amphidromical
Webster Dictionary
pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child. -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it
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unchild
Webster Dictionary
to make unlike a child. to divest of the characteristics of a child
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g. stanley hall
(Hall, G. Stanley Hall, Granville Stanley Hall)
Princeton's WordNet
United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)
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granville stanley hall
(Hall, G. Stanley Hall, Granville Stanley Hall)
Princeton's WordNet
United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)
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hall
(Hall, G. Stanley Hall, Granville Stanley Hall)
Princeton's WordNet
United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924)
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grandchild
Webster Dictionary
a son's or daughter's child. a child in the second degree of descent
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affiliate
Webster Dictionary
to fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child. as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
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