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childers

childers is the plural of childer.

Meaning of childer

Noun

childer (plural childers or children)

  1. (Ireland, Northern England) A child.
    • As yo ma be quoit shure where there's agret family a childer, a wumman's loik tubbe varra throng ina monin1839, Abel BYWATER, The Sheffield Dialect. [A Series of Papers in that Dialect, with a Glossary.], page 223

Proper noun capitalized: Childers

Childers

  1. A surname.
  2. A town in Queensland, Australia.
  3. A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Questions about childers

What does childers mean?
Childers means a surname.
What is childers the plural of?
Childers is the plural of childer.
What part of speech is childers?
Childers is a proper noun.

Words near childers in the dictionary

  1. Childermas-Days
  2. Childermases
  3. Childermass
  4. Childermasses
  5. childern
  6. childers
  7. Childes
  8. childfree
  9. childfreeness
  10. childfucker
  11. childfuckers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: childers (page history and authors); Childers (page history and authors); childer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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