<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person between birth and puberty or full growth: books for children.</li><li>a son or daughter; offspring considered with regard to parents: All my children are married.</li><li>a baby or infant: A child of six months can recognize family members.</li><li>a human fetus: My sister is seven months pregnant with a healthy child.</li><li>a childish person: He's such a child about money.</li><li>a descendant: a child of an ancient breed.</li><li>any person or thing regarded as the product or result of particular agencies, influences, etc.: Abstract art is a child of the 20th century.</li><li>a person regarded as conditioned or marked by a given circumstance, situation, etc.: a child of poverty; a child of famine.</li><li>British dialect, archaic; a female infant.</li><li>archaic; childe.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of or relating to infants or infancy: infant years.</li><li>being in infancy: an infant king.</li><li>being in the earliest stage: an infant industry.</li><li>of or relating to the legal state of infancy; minor.</li></ul>