Definition von a-child im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Child Catcher
- A fictional character who is employed by the baron to snatch and imprison children
- Indigo child
- A child with supernatural special abilities (according to certain New Age beliefs)
- barrel child
- A child in a developing country whose parents have found employment abroad. The stereotype is one of relative financial well-being, but emotional detachment from the parents
- boomerang child
- A young adult, especially a college graduate, who has returned to the parental home, especially from college due to unemployment
- boomerang-child
- Attributive form of boomerang child
boomerang-child syndrome.
- child
- A prepubescent person, a minor
For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.
- child
- A daughter or son
My youngest child is forty-three.
- child
- A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object
The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.
- child abuse
- The physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment of a child
Abdominal trauma can also result from child abuse and is the second leading cause of child abuse-related death, after traumatic brain injury.
- child carrier
- Any of several devices for carrying babies or very young children within a framework carried as a backpack or on the front of the body
- child labor
- The employment of children who are under the legal (or generally recognised) minimum age
- child language
- The language spoken by a child that doesn't have full control over it yet
- child of the manse
- A diligent and industrious person
- child porn
- pornographic material depicting minors; images of naked children
The police raid uncovered a large quantity of child porn on the teacher's laptop.
- child pornography
- Pornographic material depicting minors
- child prodigies
- plural form of child prodigy
- child prodigy
- A talented person who achieves great success at an early age; a wunderkind
- child prostitution
- The use of a child by others for sexual activities in return for remuneration or any other form of consideration
- child rape
- rape involving a child as a victim
- child safety seat
- A car safety restraint designed for infants and young children
- child safety seats
- plural form of child safety seat
- child support
- The ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made directly or indirectly by an obligor, usually the noncustodial parent, to an obligee, usually the custodial parent or other guardian, for the financial care and support of children of a relationship or marriage that has been terminated, or which never existed
- child's play
- Something particularly simple or easy
Compared to my last job, this is child's play.
- child-bearing
- Pertaining to the time between puberty and menopause when a woman is able to bear children
- child-free
- Having no children, especially as a matter of choice
- child-language
- Attributive form of child language, noun
He spoke with a child-language tone of voice but with a full vocabulary.
- feral child
- A child who is raised without human contact, often raised by wild animals as a result of being abandoned
- flower child
- A hippie involved with the flower power movement
- foster child
- A child in foster care
- inner child
- the essential, or original self, regarded as a child, existing within the shell of an adult, especially when suppressed by negative childhood experiences
- latch-key child
- A child who returns home from school to an empty house and therefore must unlock/unlatch the exterior door with a key, especially a child of working or absent parent(s)
- life child
- A person who has lived with his or her parents all the way to their deaths
- life-child
- Attributive form of life child
life-child syndrome.
- love child
- A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child
Nobody ever came to see her, nobody spoke of her, nobody cared about her. Mr Brass had said once, that he believed she was a ‘love-child’ (which means anything but a child of love).
- love-child
- Alternative spelling of love child
- man child
- A male human being of a young age. A boy
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
- man-child
- Alternative spelling of man child
- one-child policy
- A policy of population control in China, whereby a married couple is allowed only one child
- only child
- A person raised as the sole child in a household
An only child is often stereotyped as spoiled.
- only child
- A person who has no siblings
- poster child
- One who is a prototypical or quintessential example of something
He's a poster child for militant vegetarianism.
- pretermitted child
- A child who would likely stand to inherit under a will, except that the testator did not know of the child at the time the will was written, usually because the child was not yet born
- problem child
- Someone or something persistently difficult or vexing; a frequent source of trouble or annoyance
Locally and across the nation, middle schools have generally been regarded as the problem child for school systems.
- problem child
- A child who is particularly difficult to raise or educate, especially due to a lack of self-control and disruptive and antisocial behavior
Hill was a problem child who was sent to Woodlands because his parents couldn't handle him at home.
- spare the rod and spoil the child
- If one does not discipline a child, he will never learn obedience and good manners
- war child
- A child who has grown up in wartime
- wild child
- A headstrong, rebellious young person
I was a wild child, she said, sounding devilish, never did get tamed. My mother thought I was incorrigible. She called me bad, beautiful, and selfish.
- with child
- Pregnant
I should have had two children, but I find myself with only one. Yet he spends his time with other women who are already with child.
- middle child
- child born between the first and the last children
- well child visit
- Taking a child/baby to the pediatrician for his check up and shots and evaluaion of the growth and development of the baby in the areas of motor skills, language and social skills
- child
- {n} a male or female offspring of the human species
- child labour
- Employment of boys and girls in occupations deemed unfit for children. Such labour is strictly controlled in many countries as a result of the effective enforcement of laws passed in the 20th century (e.g., the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959). In developing nations the use of child labour is still common. Restrictive legislation has proved ineffective in impoverished societies with few schools, although some improvements have resulted from global activism, such as boycotts of multinational firms alleged to be exploiting child labour abroad
- child labour
- Employment of boys and girls in occupations deemed unfit for children
- child-directed speech
- (Eğitim) Any of various speech patterns used by parents or caregivers when communicating with young children, particularly infants, usually involving simplified vocabulary, melodic pitch, repetitive questioning, and a slow or deliberate tempo
- inner child
- (Psikoloji, Ruhbilim) The emotions and feelings you had as a child that still form a part of your character as an adult
- the child is father to the man
- Who we are as children gives rise to (or “is father to”) who we are as adults
- the child of a frog is a frog
- (Atasözü) 1. A child will grow up to be like his parents2. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
- to bear a child
- to give birth to a child
- A child
- bairn
- A child
- barn
- A child
- pickney
- A child
- nipper
- a child
- kiddie
- a child
- sprog
- a child
- sprout
