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childs

childs is the plural of child.

childs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of child.

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

Proper noun capitalized: Childs

Childs

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland, named after George William Childs.
  3. An unincorporated community and former town in Wilkin County, Minnesota, named after Job W. Childs.
  4. An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.

Synonyms of childs

Phrases with childs

Questions about childs

What does childs mean?
Childs means a surname.
What is childs the plural of?
Childs is the plural of child.
What part of speech is childs?
Childs is a proper noun.

Words near childs in the dictionary

  1. childrenswear
  2. Childress
  3. Childress County
  4. Childrey
  5. Childreys
  6. childs
  7. Childs Hill
  8. childsafe
  9. childship
  10. childships
  11. childsit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: childs (page history and authors); Childs (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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