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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
children
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be married with children (=to be married and have children)
▪ Kevin is married with four children.
children's home
delinquent girls/boys/children/teenagers
dependent children (=who you are still supporting financially)
▪ Do you have any dependent children?
Deprived children
Deprived children tend to do less well at school.
street children
Unaccompanied children
Unaccompanied children are not allowed on the premises.
unsuitable for children
▪ The book is unsuitable for children.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gaggle of tourists/children etc
at-risk children/patients/groups etc
▪ First, that it detects the affected or at-risk groups, and second that these can then be referred for suitable treatment.
▪ Other potential strategies include the provision of vitamin A supplements to at-risk groups.
children should be seen and not heard
grown children/daughter/son
▪ I had two grown daughters, and when I lost the first one, this one became the apple of my eye.
▪ See more of his grown daughter and son.
▪ Seeing photographs of Rubilove Willcox Aiu in newspapers last Sunday was unexpected and bewildering for her grown children.
▪ Tall, slender and divorced, Sheila had-incredibly-two grown sons.
▪ The senator, 72, has a grown daughter by his former wife but is of grandfatherly vintage now.
▪ Yet her husband, laid off from his job as a messenger, and her grown children are unemployed.
leave a wife/children etc
▪ He leaves a wife and three children.
▪ Joel Gascoyne died in London 13 February 1705 leaving a wife, Elizabeth.
▪ Mr Fraser-Smith, who lived in Devon, leaves a wife and two children.
▪ Professor Brown, who was 47, leaves a wife Evelyn, also an Open University tutor and 3 children.
▪ The college also offers a creche for two to five-year-olds so that parents can leave children in safe hands.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Children

Children \Chil"dren\, n.; pl. of Child.

Children

Child \Child\ (ch[imac]ld), n.; pl. Children (ch[i^]l"dr[e^]n). [AS. cild, pl. cildru; cf. Goth. kil[thorn]ei womb, in-kil[thorn][=o] with child.]

  1. A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.

  2. A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.

  3. One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people.

  4. A noble youth. See Childe. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

  5. A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc.

    When I was child. I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
    --1. Cor. xii. 11.

  6. A female infant. [Obs.]

    A boy or a child, I wonder?
    --Shak.

    To be with child, to be pregnant.

    Child's play, light work; a trifling contest.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
children

plural of child (q.v.)

Wiktionary
children

n. (plural of child English).

WordNet
children

See child

child
  1. n. a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters" [syn: kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling]

  2. a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; "they had three children"; "they were able to send their kids to college" [syn: kid] [ant: parent]

  3. an immature childish person; "he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived"; "stop being a baby!" [syn: baby]

  4. a member of a clan or tribe; "the children of Israel"

  5. [also: children (pl)]

Wikipedia
Children (disambiguation)

Children is the plural of child.

Children or The Children may also refer to:

Children (play)

Children is an early play by American playwright A. R. Gurney. It was first produced in London in 1974 and received its American premiere in 1976, directed by Keith Fowler and starring Carmen Mathews and Lynda Myles at the Virginia Museum Theater (now Leslie Cheek Theater) in Richmond. It was inspired by John Cheever's short story " Goodbye My Brother". A 2009 production starring Judith Light gave the play a new ending, and received positive reviews.

Children (The Mission album)

Children is the second regular studio album by the British rock-band The Mission. It was released in February 1988 by Mercury Records. Two singles were released from the album, "Tower of Strength" and "Beyond the Pale". A third single, 'Kingdom Come' was scheduled but appeared as a promo-only.

Singer Julianne Regan (from the band All About Eve) sang vocals on two tracks - "Beyond The Pale" and "Black Mountain Mist".

The album was re-issued in 2007 with four bonus tracks.

Children (2006 film)

Children (Icelandic: Börn ) is a 2006 Icelandic film. The film was highly acclaimed and won several Edda Awards. The film was also submitted as Iceland's official entry to the Academy Awards foreign film section. The film is set in the Breiðholt suburb of the Icelandic capital, and portrays a grittiness which is in "stark contrast to the tourist-friendly portrayal of Reykjavík.

Children (Robert Miles song)

"Children" is a song by Italian trance composer Robert Miles. It was first released in Italy in January 1995 as part of the EP Soundtracks on Joe Vanelli's DBX label, but it did not chart. Vanelli brought the track to a nightclub in Miami where it was heard by Simon Berry of Platipus Records. Berry worked with Vanelli and James Barton (of Liverpool's Cream nightclub) to release the song in November 1995 as the lead single from his album Dreamland. The song is Miles' most successful single, being certified Gold and Platinum in several countries and it reached number one in more than 12 countries.

Children (David Murray album)

Children is the eighth album by David Murray to be released on the Italian Black Saint label. It was released in 1984 and features performances by Murray, James "Blood" Ulmer, Don Pullen, Lonnie Plaxico and Marvin "Smitty" Smith.

The album was identified by Chris Kelsey in his Allmusic essay "Free Jazz: A Subjective History" as one of the 20 Essential Free Jazz Albums.

Children (EP)

Children is an EP by Seventh Avenue, released through Megahard on 1995.

Children (2011 film)

Children... is a 2011 South Korean film, based on a true story about an unsolved murder case.

Children (V V Brown song)

"Children" is a song by English recording artist V V Brown, initially released as the lead single from her shelved second studio album Lollipops & Politics. Written by Brown, the song also guest features American rapper Chiddy and was released to US iTunes on 20 September 2011. Brown later confirmed via Facebook that the song would be released in Europe at a future date; however this planned release was scrapped when Brown decided not to release the album. The song samples the classic children's playground song " Do Your Ears Hang Low?" in the beginning and end of the song.

Children (band)

CHILDREN is a Los Angeles-based band with five members: Tom Gil, Jeff Steiskal, Mark Yates, Graham Walker, and Trevor Wallace. The group initially began playing together informally in 2013, out of a warehouse practice space in Long Beach, California.

Their early endeavors culminated with the release of their first album, Feel Time, in March 2014. While not garnering much attention outside of the LA area, Feel Time propelled the band into over 40 local performances, and in May 2014, CHILDREN was voted The Deli Magazine - Los Angeles's artist of the month. Music from the Feel Time album was played on the radio in both Atlanta, Georgia and Los Angeles, California.

In October 2014, all five members of the band travelled to a house in Mississippi to record their sophomore album, Great River. Prior to the album's release on April 24, 2015 on Future Force Records, CHILDREN's Great River was featured on Los Angeles music blogs Free Bike Valet and Buzzbands LA. Their song Incantation was played on AM radio in Montreal, Canada by the independent music radio show Killer Baby Tomatoes.

Following the April 24, 2015 release of Great River, the album received a favorable review from Girl Underground Music: "In the midst of the revival of 60's psychedelic sounds currently on the music market, it can become difficult breaking away from primarily being thrown under this genre. The bands that are capable of standing out and defining a sound of their own will be the ones to rise above the sea line. Children is one of these bands". Their song Incantation was chosen as the soundtrack to a time-lapse video of Oakland, California artist Jennifer Lugris Park's "Forgiven" series. In May 2015, Great River was featured as one of LAist.com's top 5 albums of the month.

Usage examples of "children".

First MOLOCH, horrid King besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents tears, Though for the noyse of Drums and Timbrels loud Their childrens cries unheard, that past through fire To his grim Idol.

When leaving Yeast-town, guessing what might have happened between you two from his cerebric changes, I made the proposition of a school for emigrants as a way of insuring his childrens future.

Theres some truth in childrens tales, though, or they wouldnt go on being told.

No childrens tale I ever heard mentioned the shadowpeople building anything.

It was her Face you heard in the lake, saying words from a childrens story.

She will say she is too old to remember, too tired, that it is only a childrens story, a country tale.

Still, she could not fail to recognize what stood there, for the dress and habits of Dervishes figured often in childrens tales and firesidestories.

Childrens things, well, even Childrens toys may be dangerous in the hands of a fool, so we must go careful and sly.

I brought down the childrens cross and the altar plate and was on my way down with the Sixteenth-Century wooden chest when Verity called up the stairs to me.

And to press the magic button, says the Blue Peter bloke, or is he off that childrens art programme where they do things with rubber bands and cling film and tubes of adhesive, or was that a video with German subtitles?

Suddenly the insect dealer broke into a nasal falsetto, singing a childrens tune: The gold bug is a rich old bug Equally suddenly he broke off into an embarrassed cough.

And for an elated moment, I thought Id solved the riddlethat it was to be a kiss of life, as in the childrens story.

There were other washouts, who didnt pass the intelligence tests, but those were never offered to the Lacuunthey already filled a steady need for companions in childrens hospitals and retirement homes, where the high shipscat intelligence wasnt needed, just a loving friend smart enough to understand what not to do around someone sick or in pain.