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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
toddler
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
group
▪ Nafferton supports many organisations from toddler groups to clubs for senior citizens.
▪ It may also be that her naughtiness is her way of telling you she's not ready for the toddler group yet.
▪ Toddlers group: A toddlers group is held from 10 to 11.30am every Wednesday in the village hall.
■ VERB
see
▪ I've often seen toddlers jumping about in the back of cars ahead of me.
▪ Once I saw a toddler sitting on the ground at our local playground using his hands to bulldoze piles of sand.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A toddler was squatting in the middle of the carpet, thumb in mouth.
▪ As a toddler, he was attacked and injured by the family's pet dog.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Above 50% of infants and toddlers were able to discontinue the laxative after three to four months.
▪ Bulger court case starts Two ten-year-old boys have pleaded not guilty to the abduction and murder of the toddler, James Bulger.
▪ But neither could you escape the fact that it seemed specifically designed for bumping off toddlers.
▪ Instead, the toddler may simply look around and get irritable, and appear more and more scattered.
▪ Then, in marked contrast, there are the several photos of smiling, pink-cheeked toddlers raggedly clipped from magazines.
▪ Today middle-class parents read books on toddler development, attend parent workshops, and learn how to talk so children will listen.
▪ Your toddler will be fascinated by the spongy texture of the filled bag and the movement of the floating toys.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toddler

Toddler \Tod"dler\, n. One who toddles; especially, a young child.
--Mrs. Gaskell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
toddler

1793, agent noun from toddle. Toddlekins is from 1839.

Wiktionary
toddler

n. A young human being who has started walking but not fully mastered it, typically between ages one to three years old.

WordNet
toddler

n. a young child [syn: yearling, tot, bambino]

Wikipedia
Toddler

A toddler is a child between the ages of one and three. The toddler years are a time of great cognitive, emotional and social development. The word is derived from "to toddle", which means to walk unsteadily, like a child of this age.

Usage examples of "toddler".

The sisters were busy with their toddlers doing that Yuppie shuffle of day care for the abysmally affluent.

She may later become one of the babies and toddlers who is anxious, fussy, and difficult to soothe.

A faded daguerreotype of a young girl with a plump toddler cradled in her arms.

Zeek the Meek and Super Duper, characters Hannah had made up in stories for Josh when he was a toddler.

After the experience of having her luxurious home in Jumar repossessed and being deported with her twin toddlers because she no longer had any means of support, her sister-in-law, Lizzie, was feeling very sorry for herself.

There were the usual people out enjoying the late August sun - mums with toddlers, a few joggers, a guy on a bench listening to his Walkman and a number of teens hanging out farther down the hill.

The camera pulled back enough to show her with her arms around a tall girl with shy eyes, and a rambunctious toddler running a toy across his lap.

Even Lida was especially quiet as she dug into the rice with her own tiny toddler spoon and drank milk from her sippy cup.

Twice, Yone had saved them fromlosses, once wrestling a toddler from the very jaws of a cat-likehunter.

From the time she had been a toddler, she had crawled into this bed on Sunday mornings, dragging her stuffed animals and blankies with her, her menagerie as much a part of the weekend routine as the funny papers and the croissants and jam and tea that Delphine always brought upstairs on the breakfast tray.

Anna held down two jobs following her mastectomy, while the children were growing from toddlers to preteens.

He wore a wedding band and on his desk sat photographs of an equally young-looking wife and a pair of photogenic toddlers.

Briggs sloshed on the polyurethane with all the delicacy of a toddler, and I followed along behind her, trying to smooth out the drips before they hardened.

Now, half a year past his third birthday, he has begun to babble in that peculiar mixture of proper English and mysterious prelinguistic code that so many toddlers discover shortly after turning one.

Lily and Mae were scampering down the hill, Stephen close behind them, holding a chubby, dark-haired toddler in his arms.