📖 C — The English dictionary · page 27

child — Everyday, meaning 1: A child is a young boy or girl.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A child is someone's son or daughter, at any age.↗ e.g. Grandma has three children.↗ Children means more than one child.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (casual) «Kid», «kiddo», «nipper» (UK), «ankle-biter» and «rug rat» (Australia, US, joking) are chatty words for a child.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (rough) «Don't be such a child» or «stop acting like a child» is a put-down meaning you are being silly or babyish.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (formal) The exam voice and official notices say «minor», «juvenile», «pupil», «dependant», «persons under the age of 12».↗ Example: 32 cards are shared between 8 children equally.↗ How many does each child get?↗ · There are 4 tables with 5 children at each table.↗ · 6 children were in the park and 3 more came.↗ · Every child in the class got a sticker.↗ · My aunt has two children, a boy and a girl.↗ · Children under 12 must wear a helmet.↗ · When Dad was a child, he lived on a farm.↗ · The children laughed at the clown.↗ · 12 kids at the party, sorry, 13 with me↗ · Oh, stop acting like a child and share them.↗ · Minors must be accompanied by an adult at all times.↗ · Thirty-two cards are apportioned equally among eight minors; state the allocation per minor.↗ · All children, except one, grow up.↗ · And the child grew, and was weaned.↗ (Torah GEN.21.8, JPS 1917)↗ · All these were the children of Keturah.↗ (Torah GEN.25.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And Sarai was barren; she had no child.↗ (Torah GEN.11.30, JPS 1917)↗ · These are the children of Japhlet.↗ (Writings 1CH.7.33, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.↗ (Writings EZR.2.20, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.↗ (Writings EZR.2.24, JPS 1917)↗

childcare — Everyday, meaning 1: Looking after children, especially while their parents are at work.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The places and services that do this: nurseries, childminders, day care centres, after-school clubs.↗ Example: My little sister goes to childcare while Mum works.↗ · Childcare can be very expensive for families.↗ · Grandma helps with childcare on Fridays.↗ · The after-school club offers childcare until six o'clock.↗ · Some workplaces have childcare on site.↗ · She is training to be a childcare worker.↗ · The government promised more free childcare hours.↗

childhood — Everyday, meaning 1: Childhood is the time of a person's life when they are a child.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A childhood is the kind of life someone had as a child (a happy childhood).↗ Example: Grandma spent her childhood on a farm.↗ · He had a happy childhood by the sea.↗ · They have been best friends since childhood.↗ · This song reminds Dad of his childhood.↗ · Childhood is a time for playing and learning.↗ · She wrote a book about her childhood in Ireland.↗ · Doctors give children vaccines in early childhood.↗ · That old teddy bear was my childhood toy.↗ · "Have you been obliged to toil in this way from your childhood?"↗ · Therefore remove vexation from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.↗ (Writings ECC.11.10, JPS 1917)↗

childish — Everyday, meaning 1: Childish describes an older person or their behaviour when it is silly or immature, like a small child's — usually as a criticism.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Childish means belonging to or like a child: «childish handwriting».↗ Example: Stop being so childish and say sorry.↗ · It was childish to hide his pencil case.↗ · The note was written in childish handwriting.↗ · Dad's jokes are a bit childish, but we laugh.↗ · Calling names is childish.↗ · She thought the cartoon was too childish for her.↗ · His games, too, were quite different; they were not so childish.↗

childishly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a silly, immature way that is not right for someone's age (said of older children and adults, usually as criticism).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a way like a child, simply and innocently (childishly happy).↗ Example: The two men argued childishly over a parking space.↗ · He childishly refused to share the remote.↗ · She stamped her foot childishly and stormed off.↗ · Grandad laughed childishly at his own joke.↗ · Stop behaving so childishly; you're twelve!↗ · They were childishly excited about the snow.↗

childless — Everyday, meaning 1: Childless means having no children.↗ Example: The childless queen wished for a baby.↗ · Many childless couples adopt a child.↗ · The old people were sad because they were childless.↗ · And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.↗ (Torah LEV.20.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife — he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness — they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.↗ (Torah LEV.20.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abram said: 'O Lord GOD, what wilt Thou give me, seeing I go hence childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?'↗ (Torah GEN.15.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.↗ (Prophets 1SA.15.33, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus saith the LORD: Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.↗ (Prophets JER.22.30, JPS 1917)↗

childlessness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: the state of having no children.↗ Example: The antithesis of wisdom is foolishness; of wealth, poverty; of fruitfulness, childlessness; of life, death; of dominion, dependence; of peace, war; and of beauty, ugliness.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

childlike — Everyday, meaning 1: Childlike means like a child: trusting, wondering and innocent, in a good way.↗ Example: She had a childlike smile.↗ · He felt childlike wonder at the snow.↗ · Her childlike faith made her happy.↗

chile — Everyday, meaning 1: Chile is a long, narrow country in South America, between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A chile (also chili or chilli) is a small hot-tasting pepper used in cooking.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Chile can also be a friendly dialect word, used in some Southern American speech, meaning child or dear, when speaking to a young person.↗ Example: Chile is a country in South America.↗ · The capital of Chile is Santiago.↗ · Chile is very long and narrow.↗ · The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the driest places on Earth.↗ · This sauce has green chile in it.↗ · Wash your hands after cutting a chile, and don't touch your eyes.↗ · Chile is next to Argentina.↗

chill — Everyday, meaning 1: A chill is a feeling of cold: «a chill in the air».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A chill is a mild illness where you feel cold and shivery: «catch a chill».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To chill is to make something cold or cool, often in a fridge.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A chill (down your spine) is a feeling of fear.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (informal) To chill or chill out is to relax and calm down; a chill person is relaxed.↗ Example: There's a chill in the air this morning.↗ · Put the drinks in the fridge to chill.↗ · Wear a coat so you don't catch a chill.↗ · A chill ran down my spine when the door creaked.↗ · The wind chill made it feel minus ten.↗ · We chilled out on the sofa after school.↗ · Chill — it's only a game!↗ · Chill the jelly for two hours until it sets.↗ · The fisherman was chilled with fear.↗

chiller — Everyday, meaning 1: A machine or cabinet that keeps food or drink very cold, like a fridge in a shop or kitchen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A frightening story or film that gives you a shiver: «a spine-chiller».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, informal) «A chiller» can also mean a relaxed, calm person or time.↗ Example: The milk is in the chiller at the back of the shop.↗ · The café has a drinks chiller by the door.↗ · That ghost story was a real chiller.↗ · Keep raw meat in the chiller to stop germs growing.↗ · The film is a spine-chiller, so don't watch it before bed.↗ · Fish are packed in ice and kept in a chiller.↗

chilli — Everyday, meaning 1: A chilli is a small pepper, often red or green, that tastes very hot and spicy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Chilli, or chilli con carne, is a spicy dish made with minced meat, beans, tomatoes and chillies.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Chilli powder or flakes are dried, ground chillies used as a spice.↗ Example: The curry had too much chilli for me.↗ · Dad made chilli con carne with rice.↗ · Wash your hands after chopping chillies!↗ · A glass of milk helps when chilli burns your mouth.↗ · Green chillies are picked before they turn red.↗ · Grandma grows chillies in her greenhouse.↗ · We dipped our spring rolls in sweet chilli sauce.↗

chilly — Everyday, meaning 1: Chilly means rather cold, cold enough to be uncomfortable.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A chilly person or welcome is unfriendly and not warm.↗ Example: It's a bit chilly, so take your jacket.↗ · The classroom was chilly before the heating came on.↗ · A chilly wind blew across the beach.↗ · I feel chilly; can you close the window?↗ · The nights get chillier in autumn.↗ · She gave him a chilly stare.↗ · We got a chilly welcome from the grumpy shopkeeper.↗ · A chilly little wind came creeping with them making scary noises in the grass.↗

chime — Everyday, meaning 1: A clear ringing sound made by a bell or clock: the chime of the church clock.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (chimes) A set of bells or metal tubes that ring musically: wind chimes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To ring with a clear sound: the clock chimed three.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Chime in: to join a conversation suddenly.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Chime with: to agree or fit with something (formal).↗ Example: The clock chimed twelve times at midnight.↗ · Wind chimes tinkled in the breeze.↗ · The doorbell chimed and Grandma came in.↗ · "Me too!" my sister chimed in.↗ · (formal) His story chimes with what the witness said.↗ · If a clock chimes once at 1 o'clock, twice at 2 and so on, how many chimes from 1 to 4?↗ (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10).↗ · Deep chasms yawned around it, the water-drops glittered as if lighted with blue flame, and tinkled like the chiming of church bells.↗

chimney — Everyday, meaning 1: A chimney is a tall pipe or structure that carries smoke and hot gases from a fire or stove up and out through the roof.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A chimney is also the part of it that sticks up above the roof.↗ Example: Smoke rose from the chimney of the little cottage.↗ · In the story, Santa slid down the chimney.↗ · A bird built a nest on top of the chimney.↗ · The chimney sweep cleaned out the black soot.↗ · The factory had two tall brick chimneys.↗ · Grandpa used to smoke like a chimney, but he stopped.↗ · We could see chimneys on every roof in the street.↗ · All the chimneys in the town were smoking.↗

chimp — Everyday, meaning 1: A chimp is a chimpanzee, a clever, hairy African ape that lives in groups in forests and is one of the closest animal relatives of humans.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) People sometimes call a cheeky, silly person a chimp, in a joking way.↗ Example: The chimp used a stick to fish for termites.↗ · Chimps live in groups in the forests of Africa.↗ · A baby chimp rides on its mother's back.↗ · Chimps are apes, so they have no tail.↗ · Jane Goodall studied wild chimps for many years.↗ · Stop acting like a chimp and sit down!↗ · The zoo's chimps hooted when the keeper arrived.↗

chimpanzee — Everyday, meaning 1: A chimpanzee is an intelligent ape with black hair, long arms and no tail, which lives in groups in the forests and grasslands of central and West Africa.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Chimpanzees, together with bonobos, are the closest living animal relatives of humans.↗ Example: Chimpanzees live in groups in African forests.↗ · A chimpanzee used a stone to crack open a nut.↗ · Chimpanzees share a lot of their DNA with humans.↗ · Jane Goodall watched wild chimpanzees for many years.↗ · Chimpanzees groom each other to stay friends.↗ · Chimpanzees are apes, not monkeys.↗ · The chimpanzee made a nest of leaves high in a tree.↗

chin — Everyday, meaning 1: The part of the face below the mouth, at the front of the lower jaw.↗ Example: He got a bruise on his chin.↗ · Keep your chin up — you'll do better next time.↗ · Fasten your helmet's chin strap.↗ · The baby dribbled down her chin.↗ · She rested her chin on her hand.↗ · He took the bad news on the chin.↗ · He’s tickling under my chin,” said Teddy.↗

china — Everyday, meaning 1: China (with a capital C) is a very large country in East Asia with the largest or second-largest population in the world.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: china (small c) is fine, hard, white clay made into cups, plates and bowls, and also the cups and plates themselves.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In UK and Australian slang, «china» means a mate or friend.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: China can also mean a small ornament or figure made of china.↗ Example: China is a huge country in Asia.↗ · Giant pandas live in the mountains of China.↗ · The Great Wall of China is very long.↗ · Grandma only uses her best china at Christmas.↗ · Be careful, that china plate breaks easily.↗ · He was like a bull in a china shop, knocking things over.↗ · Paper was invented in China long ago.↗ · The tea was served in delicate china cups.↗ · But the china girl cried out:↗

chinaman — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use, now offensive) A chinaman was an old word for a man from China.↗ Say «a Chinese person» instead.↗ Example: The old tale calls the emperor's courtier a chinaman, but today we say Chinese person.↗ · Say Chinese person, not chinaman.↗