Childlessness

Child  (chld), Julia Born 1912.

American cookery expert known for her books and her instructional television and video series.

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child  (chld)

n. pl. chil·dren (chldrn)

1. A person between birth and puberty.

2.

a. An unborn infant; a fetus.

b. An infant; a baby.

3. One who is childish or immature.

4. A son or daughter; an offspring.

5. A member of a tribe; descendant: children of Abraham.

6.

a. An individual regarded as strongly affected by another or by a specified time, place, or circumstance: a child of nature; a child of the Sixties.

b. A product or result of something specified: "Times Square is a child of the 20th century" Richard F. Shepard.

Idiom:

with child

Pregnant.

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[Middle English, from Old English cild.]

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childless adj.

childless·ness n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

childlessness - the condition of being without offspring situation, state of affairs - the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt