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n. (person) | 1. child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster | a young person of either sex.; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" |
| ~ child's body | the body of a human child. |
| ~ juvenile, juvenile person | a young person, not fully developed. |
| ~ bairn | a child: son or daughter. |
| ~ buster | a robust child. |
| ~ changeling | a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy. |
| ~ child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child | a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age.; "Mozart was a child prodigy" |
| ~ foster-child, foster child, fosterling | a child who is raised by foster parents. |
| ~ scamp, imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag | one who is playfully mischievous. |
| ~ kiddy | a young child. |
| ~ orphan | a child who has lost both parents. |
| ~ peanut | a young child who is small for his age. |
| ~ picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child. |
| ~ poster child | a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes.; "she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy" |
| ~ kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler | a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten. |
| ~ silly | a word used for misbehaving children.; "don't be a silly" |
| ~ sprog | a child. |
| ~ bambino, toddler, yearling, tot | a young child. |
| ~ urchin | poor and often mischievous city child. |
| ~ street child, waif | a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned.; "street children beg or steal in order to survive" |
adj. | 2. minor | of lesser importance or stature or rank.; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads" |
| ~ peanut, insignificant | of little importance or influence or power; of minor status.; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians" |
| ~ secondary | not of major importance.; "played a secondary role in world events" |
adj. | 3. minor | lesser in scope or effect.; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance" |
adj. | 4. minor | inferior in number or size or amount.; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor" |
adj. | 5. minor | of a scale or mode.; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor" |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
adj. | 6. minor, nonaged, underage | not of legal age.; "minor children" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
adj. | 7. minor | of lesser seriousness or danger.; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance" |
adj. | 8. minor | of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization. |
adj. | 9. minor | of the younger of two boys with the same family name.; "Jones minor" |
| ~ britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom. |
| ~ junior | younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service. |
adj. | 10. minor, venial | warranting only temporal punishment.; "venial sin" |
| ~ theology, divinity | the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth. |
| ~ pardonable | admitting of being pardoned. |
adj. | 11. minor, modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale | limited in size or scope.; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country" |
| ~ limited | small in range or scope.; "limited war"; "a limited success"; "a limited circle of friends" |
underage | | |
adj. | 1. underage | dependent by virtue of youth. |
| ~ dependent | relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed.; "dependent children"; "dependent on moisture" |
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