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child

 
 
/tʃaɪld/ noun [C] (plural children)

Translation

YOUNG PERSON a young person who is not yet an adult
genç çocuk
an eight-year-old child How many children are there in your class?445
SON/DAUGHTER someone's son or daughter, also when they are adults
çocuk, evlat
Both our children have grown up and moved away. → See also only child626621
(Definition of child noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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