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children

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/(UK)
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/ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/(UK) · /ˈtʃɪl.ɹən/ · /ˈtʃɪl.ə(ɹ)n/ · /ˈt͡ʃʊldɹən/(UK) · /ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/ · /ˈt͡ʃɪl.dən/

Definition of children

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (form-of, plural)plural of child
    “Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.”
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noun

  1. (form-of, plural)plural of child
    “Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.”
  2. (form-of, plural)plural of childer

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English children, alteration of earlier childre ("children"; > English dialectal childer), from Old English ċildru, ċildra (“children”), nominative and accusative plural of ċild (“child”), equivalent to child + -ren.

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