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child-mind

child-mind is the alternative form of childmind.

Meaning of childmind

Noun

childmind (plural childminds)

  1. The mind of a child.
    • Knowing how the childmind attains a certain result is worth more to a truth seeking teacher than all the tables in the Arithmetic; for having this knowledge of the childmind she is able to present such conditions and things as the mind is able to grasp and know.1887, Southwestern Journal of Education - Volume 5
  2. That aspect of one's psyche that is childlike.
    • In a healthy psyche the childmind and the adultmind interplay and assist one another. When the childmind is protected by an ennobled adultmind, the childmind is free to play, and wonder, and live in innocence.2010, True Blue Indigo, A Personal Aristocracy, page 65

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Forms of child-mind

Noun
pluralchild-minds
Verb
third-person singular presentchild-minds
present participlechild-minding
past participlechild-minded
pastchild-minded

Questions about child-mind

What is child-mind the alternative form of?
Child-mind is the alternative form of childmind.

Words near child-mind in the dictionary

  1. child-fucker
  2. child-fuckers
  3. child-great
  4. child-in-law
  5. child-like
  6. child-mind
  7. child-minded
  8. child-minding
  9. child-minds
  10. child-molester
  11. child-molesters

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