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| Main Entry: | child |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very young person |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, babe, baby, brat, cherub, chick, cub, descendant, imp, infant, innocent, issue, juvenile, kid, minor, mite, moppet, newborn, nipper, offspring, progeny, sprout, squirt, stripling, suckling, teenager, toddler, tyke, urchin*, youngster, youth, anklebiter, bairn, bambino, dickens, kiddie, lamb, little angel, little darling, little doll, little one, neonate, nestling, nursling, preteen, pubescent, shaver, small fry, tadpole, teen, teenybopper, tot, whippersnapper, young one |
| Antonyms: | adult |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | babe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baby |
| Synonyms: | child, infant, newborn, suckling, bairn, little one |
| Antonyms: | adolescent, adult |
| Main Entry: | baby |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infant |
| Synonyms: | babe, bundle, button, cherub, chick, child, deduction*, dividend*, kid, newborn, nipper*, suckling, toddler, youngster, angelface, bairn, bambino, buttercup, crawler, dumpling, little angel, little darling, little doll, little one, nursling, papoose, preemie, tad, tot, write-off |
| Antonyms: | adolescent, adult |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young man |
| Synonyms: | buck, cadet, chap, child, dude*, fellow, guy, junior, lad, master, punk*, puppy*, runt*, sprout*, squirt*, stripling, youngster, youth, gamin, half-pint, little guy, little shaver, schoolboy, shaver, small fry, sonny, tadpole, whippersnapper |
| Antonyms: | girl |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | descendant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in line of ancestry |
| Synonyms: | brood, child, get*, heir, issue, kin, offshoot, offspring, posterity, product, progeny, scion, seed, spin-off*, children, chip off old block, progeniture |
| Antonyms: | predecessor, ascendant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | human |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, Homo sapiens |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, child, creature, individual, life, mortal, personage, soul, biped, wight |
| Notes: | a human is a person while being humane means characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion |
| Antonyms: | abstract, immortal, inanimate, nonentity, plant |
| Main Entry: | individual |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | singular person, thing |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, child, creature, dude*, entity, existence, human being, man, material, matter, mortal, number, party, person, personage, self, somebody, something, soul, stuff, substance, type, unit, woman, singleton |
| Antonyms: | group |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baby |
| Synonyms: | babe, bundle, child, kid, newborn, suckling, toddler, bairn, bambino, bantling, little one, neonate, small child, tot |
| Antonyms: | adult |
| Main Entry: | juvenile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young person |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, boy, child, girl, infant, kid*, minor, youngster, youth |
| Antonyms: | adult |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | kid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young person |
| Synonyms: | baby, boy, child, daughter, girl, infant, juvenile, lad, lass, son, teenager, youngster, youth, bairn, little one, tot |
| Antonyms: | adult |
| Main Entry: | lad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young man |
| Synonyms: | boy, buddy, child, fellow, guy, juvenile, kid*, runt*, son, stripling, youngster, youth, half-pint, schoolboy |
| Antonyms: | man |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person under legal age of maturity |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, boy, child, girl, infant, junior, juvenile, lad, teenager, youngster, youth, little one, schoolboy, schoolgirl, underage |
| Antonyms: | adult |
| Main Entry: | newborn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infant |
| Synonyms: | babe, baby, bundle, child, kid, suckling, bairn, bambino, bantling, little one, neonate, nursling, small child, tot |
| Main Entry: | scion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offshoot, descendant |
| Synonyms: | branch, brood, child, graft, heir, issue, junior, offspring, progeny, seed, shoot, slip, sprout, successor, twig, begotten, chip off old block, heiress |
| Antonyms: | cause, root, source |
| Main Entry: | toddler |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baby |
| Synonyms: | child, infant, kid, rug rat*, youngster, little one, preschooler, tot |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stratagem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | action, angle, artifice, bit, booby trap, child, con, deception, device, dodge, feint, gambit, game, game plan, gimmick, grift, intrigue, layout, maneuver, method, one-upmanship, pitch, plan, play, plot, ploy, pretext, proposition, racket, ruse, scenario, scene, scheme, setup, shift, slant, stall, story, subterfuge, switch, twist, wile, brainchild, gamesmanship, little game |
| Main Entry: | ward |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | custody; person in one's custody |
| Synonyms: | care, charge, child, client, dependent, guardianship, keeping, minor, orphan, pensioner, protégé, protection, pupil, safekeeping, trust, adopted child, foster child, godchild, protégée |
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intention |
| Synonyms: | action, aim, angle, animus, big picture*, brainchild, child*, conation, conspiracy, deliberation, end, enterprise, game plan*, gimmick, goal, intendment, intrigue, lay of the land, machination, meaning, notion, object, objective, picture, pitch, plan, play, plot, point, project, proposition, purport, purpose, recipe, reflection, scenario, scene, schema, scheme, setup, story, target, thinking, thought, trick, undertaking, view, volition, what's cooking, will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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