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childrens

childrens is the plural of child.

childrens is the genitive of children.

Meaning of child

Noun

child (plural children or (dialectal or archaic) childer)

  1. (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
    • Go easy on him: he is but a child.
    Synonyms:
    kid
    1. (broadly, sometimes) A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.
  2. One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
    • My youngest child is forty-three this year.
    Synonyms:
    descendant
  3. The thirteenth Lenormand card.
  4. (figuratively) A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
    • the children of Israel
    Synonyms:
    product, son, daughter
  5. (figuratively) Anything derived from or caused by something.
    • Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war.1991, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

See all 12 meanings of child

Origin of childrens

children + -s, adding the obsolete genitive or the plural marker to an already plural form.

Questions about childrens

What is childrens the plural of?
Childrens is the plural of child.

Words near childrens in the dictionary

  1. children's table
  2. children's tables
  3. children-in-law
  4. childrenite
  5. childrenless
  6. childrens
  7. childrenswear
  8. Childress
  9. Childress County
  10. Childrey
  11. Childreys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: childrens (page history and authors); child (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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