Kids : nm (word from latin infants “who does not speak”, therefore “baby, child”, family of fari “to speak” infant; fable, eloquence, showmanship).
The word “child” has many meanings:
I) Human being in the age of childhood:
1 Human being in the first years of his life, from birth to adolescence (toddler, toddler, girl),
– girl, boy, boy, small; region. funny, gone,
– minot, pitchoun; family or pop. kid,
– kid, lardon, loupiot, brat, brat, kid, brat, kid, moujingue, brat, petiot, tadpole; very colloquial: chiard.
Toddler, bottle-feeding, breast-feeding (baby, infant, infant, toddler).
A small child, a young child.
An already grown child (preteen).
School child (schoolboy, pupil).
Mischievous, clever child (synonyms: brigand, devil, trickster, rogue, galopin, goblin; region: arsouille, snoreau).
Noisy, difficult, unbearable, turbulent child (scamp, devil, rascal, jojo, prank).
Foundling (region: champi).
Street child.
Child prodigy, gifted.
Retarded, retarded child.
Caring for a child.
Raising children. Good child, badly brought up.
To cajole, pamper a child. Care given to children (childcare; pedodontics).
Diseases of children (infantile; paediatrics, child psychiatry).
Education of children (pedagogy).
Abuse a child. Child martyr. Child abuser.
Sexual attraction to children (pederasty, pedophilia).
Children's books, for children.
Bed, baby carriage.
Nanny.
Kindergarten.
Collective: The child: all the children.
Personality, child development.
Specially: Child at birth and shortly after (newborn).
Birth of a child (childbirth).
Premature child, placed in an incubator. Stillborn child. Children born of the same pregnancy (twin, quadruplets, quintuplets, triplets).
Feeding, breastfeeding a child.
Wean a child. Change a child. Rock a child. Walk a child in a pram, stroller.
Adjective: Very young.
A work of Mozart as a child.
Phrase: It's child's play: it's very easy (childish; phrase: it's the childhood of art).
There are no more children, is said when a child does or says things that are not his age.
He takes me for a child, for a naïve. Don't be childish: be serious (childishness).
Terrible child.
A spoiled child.
Good kid: Ingenuous, simpleton, naive (often used with an emotional undertone).
Altar boy: child who stands in the choir during services to assist the priest.
Figurative meaning: Naive person. They are not all altar boys.
2. A person who has retained childhood feelings and features in adulthood.
He remained a big child.
Adjective: childish, infantile, childish. She remained very childish.
II) Human being with regard to his filiation
1. Human being considered in relation to his parents, son or daughter.
Parents and their children.
Our children's children (grandchildren).
To want, to desire, to have children. A wanted child. They cannot have children (sterility).
She is expecting a child: she is pregnant.
Joking: heir.
In fairy tales: they were happy and had many children.
A family of five children.
The eldest, the youngest of their children.
An only child.
Legitimate, natural, adoptive, adulterous, incestuous child.
Illegitimate child (bastard).
Children of the first, of the second bed.
A child of divorcees.
Aged meaning: A child of love: a natural child.
Abandon your child. A foundling, born of unknown parents.
Recognize, declare your child.
Colloquial: To give birth to a woman (vulgar meaning: to impregnate).
To make a child in the back: to make a bad blow to him without his knowledge.
Biblical allusion: The prodigal son.
Term of endearment: My (dear) child, my (dear) children, is said to younger beings, as if they were considered as one's children.
Hello, beautiful child!
2. By extension: Descending. The children of Adam (posterity).
Person from (a country, an environment). A child of the people.
Human being considered as attached by his origins to sb or sth. Children of the Church: Christians.
Children of Mary: Catholic congregation of young girls who have a special devotion to the Virgin Mary. A child of Mary (figurative meaning: chaste and naive young girl).
Formerly: soldier's child: son of a soldier raised in a barracks, a military school.
A child of the ball: from the circus world.
3. Figurative meaning: Product, that which comes from.
Opposite of child: adult.