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childlessness

Variant of child

noun pl. children

  1. an infant; baby
  2. an unborn offspring; fetus
  3. a boy or girl in the period before puberty
  4. a son or daughter; offspring
    1. a descendant
    2. a member of a tribe, clan, etc.: often used in pl.: children of Israel
  5. a person like a child in interests, judgment, etc., or one regarded as immature and childish
  6. a person identified with a specified place, time, etc.: a child of the Renaissance
  7. a thing that springs from a specified source; product: a child of one's imagination
  8. Archaic childe
  9. Brit., Dialectal a female infant

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