child
- 01 B2 Upper Intermediate
a person who is strongly influenced by the time or place they grew up in.
a person or thing that is the product or result of a specific period, environment, or set of circumstances.
Simple“As a child of the sixties, he loved rock music and social change.”
In context“The novel's protagonist is very much a child of the industrial revolution, reflecting the anxieties of a society in rapid transition.”
- 02 C1 Advanced
a smaller part that is connected to a main part in a computer system or diagram.
a node in a tree data structure that is descended from another node; a sub-process spawned by a parent process.
Simple“In this folder structure, each subfolder is a child of the main directory.”
In context“The algorithm recursively visits each child node to ensure the entire data tree is indexed correctly.”
UsageOften used in the pair 'parent/child' to describe hierarchical relationships.
Synonymssub nodesub processAntonyms
Usage child sex · child sexual · child protection