Phrase Hound found 204 phrases and 38 compound words that contain children. The most common are listed below. Open children in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 204
- Young Children
- think of the childrenAn appeal to suspend rational consideration of an issue owing to its presumptive negative effects on the young and impressionable; usually in ironic or mocking parody of another's argumentum ad passiones or moral panic.
- Two Children
- children-in-lawplural of child-in-law: A spouse of one's child; a son-in-law or daughter-in-law
- More children
- Five Children
- minor childrenplural of minor child: A child below the age of majority, consent, &c.
- black childrenplural of black child
- home childrenplural of home child: A person who was sent as a child from the United Kingdom to one of its colonies, under a migration scheme founded in 1869.
- only childrenplural of only child: A person who has no siblings; a person raised as the sole child in a household.
- Little Children
- love childrenplural of love child: A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child.
- street childrenplural of street child: A child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
- man-childrenplural of man-child: An adult male who is childish or immature.
- adult childrenplural of adult child: A grown-up descendant of a person referred to in earlier contexts.
- what about the childrenAlternative form of think of the children: An appeal to suspend rational consideration of an issue owing to its presumptive negative effects on the young and impressionable; usually in ironic or mocking parody of another's argumentum ad …
- foster childrenplural of foster child: A child in foster care; a child in one's foster care, in relation to oneself.
- Children of IsraelJewish people, collectively.
- single childrenplural of single child: Synonym of only child (one who has no siblings).
- All His Children
- All My Children
- All the Children
- All You Children
- American children
- Be Like Children
Compound words 38
- stepchildrenplural of stepchild: The child of one's spouse from a previous relationship.
- womenandchildrenHumanitarian language used as a justification to go to war.
- childreniteA rare hydrated phosphate mineral with the chemical formula (Fe,Mn)AlPO₄(OH)₂•H₂O, brown or yellow in colour with a vitreous lustre.
- antichildrenOpposing children.
- childrenlessChildless.
- grandchildrenplural of grandchild: A child of someone's child.
- schoolchildrenplural of schoolchild: A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.
- childrenswearclothing for children; children's wear.
- dreamchildrenplural of dreamchild: Something produced or established as a result of someone's imagination or personal efforts.
- biochildrenplural of biochild: A biological child.