All English words - page 948

Meanings of Childhoods:

noun

The state or period of being a child.

Usage examples:

He spent his childhood in lewes

Meanings of Childing:

noun

The act of giving birth to a child; childbearing, parturition, delivery.

adjective

That bears or is capable of bearing a child or children; pregnant; in labour; recently delivered of a child. now archaic or in historical contexts.

Meanings of Childish:

adjective

Of, like, or appropriate to a child.

Usage examples:

Childish enthusiasm

Meanings of Childishly:

adverb

In the manner of a child.

Usage examples:

A childishly innocent remark

Meanings of Childishness:

noun

Behavior typical of a child

Meanings of Childless:

adjective

Not having any children.

Usage examples:

A childless couple

Meanings of Childlessness:

noun

The state of having no children.

Usage examples:

Some of the issues that surround childlessness, infertility, and parenthood

Meanings of Childlike:

adjective

(of an adult) having the good qualities, such as innocence, associated with a child.

Usage examples:

She speaks with a childlike directness

Meanings of Childlikeness:

noun

The quality of being childlike.

Meanings of Childmind:

verb

To take care of someone's children in your home while that person is doing something else

Usage examples:

She's already asked me to childmind for her when she has her children., the mother of two from nort…

Meanings of Childminder:

noun

A person who looks after children in their own home for payment.

Usage examples:

She drops off her children at the childminder's

Meanings of Childness:

noun

The quality or state of being a child or of being childlike.

Meanings of Childproof:

adjective

Designed to prevent children from injuring themselves or doing damage.

Usage examples:

Disinfectants that are fitted with childproof caps

verb

Make inaccessible to children.

Usage examples:

Childproof those cabinets with safety latches

Meanings of Children:

noun

A young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority.

Usage examples:

She'd been playing tennis since she was a child

Pl of child

Meanings of Childrenite:

noun

A phosphate mineral typically found as pale or yellowish brown prismatic crystals.

Meanings of Childs-play:

phrase

A task which is easily accomplished.

Usage examples:

Tapping telephones is child's play

idiom

Something that is very easy to do

Usage examples:

For her, computer programming is child’s play.

Meanings of Childship:

noun

The state or condition of being a child; the relationship of child to parent; the attainment of this status, filiation, adoption.

Meanings of Childwife:

noun

A midwife. rare (now historical).

Meanings of Childwite:

noun

A penalty for an illegitimate child; a fine paid by the reputed father of the child to the lord of the unfree mother.

Meanings of Chile:

noun

Us spelling of chilli.

proper noun

A country occupying a long coastal strip down the southern half of the west of south america; population 18,000,000 (estimated 2015); official language, spanish; capital, santiago.

Meanings of Chilean:

adjective

Relating to chile or its people.

Usage examples:

The chilean coast

noun

A native or inhabitant of chile.

Usage examples:

A new generation of chileans will vote for the first time this weekend

Meanings of Chileans:

noun

A native or inhabitant of chile.

Usage examples:

A new generation of chileans will vote for the first time this weekend

adjective

Relating to chile or its people.

Usage examples:

The chilean coast

Meanings of Chiles:

noun

Us spelling of chilli.

Meanings of Chili:

noun

A small hot-tasting pod of a variety of capsicum, used in sauces, relishes, and spice powders. there are various forms with pods of differing size, colour, and strength of flavour.

Usage examples:

Seasonings for marinades run the gamut from herbs, spices, garlic, and chilies to fish sauce, salts…

Meanings of Chiliad:

noun

A group of a thousand things.

Usage examples:

You made my life one breathless thrill then left me on this lonely bed, with no instructions how to…