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Childlessness

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Noun

1. childlessness

the condition of being without offspring

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Childlessness

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nounWord forms: plural children
1. 
a. 
a boy or girl between birth and puberty
b. 
(as modifier)
child labour
2. 
a baby or infant
3. 
an unborn baby
▶ Related prefix: paedo-
4.  with child
5. 
a human offspring; son or daughter
▶ Related adjective: filial
6. 
a childish or immature person
7. 
a member of a family or tribe; descendant
a child of Israel
8. 
a person or thing regarded as the product of an influence or environment
a child of nature
9. English Midlands and Western England dialect
a female infant

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Childlessness

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Francis James1825-96; U.S. scholar and collector of Eng. & Scot. ballads
nounWord forms: plural ˈchildren
1. 
an infant; baby
2. 
an unborn offspring; fetus
3. 
a boy or girl in the period before puberty
4. 
a son or daughter; offspring
5. 
a. 
a descendant
b. 
a member of a tribe, clan, etc.
often used in pl.
children of Israel
6. 
a person like a child in interests, judgment, etc., or one regarded as immature and childish
7. 
a person identified with a specified place, time, etc.
a child of the Renaissance
8. 
a thing that springs from a specified source; product
a child of one's imagination
9.  Archaic
childe
10.  British, Dialectal
a female infant

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Childlessness

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n. pl. chil·dren(chĭldrən)
1.
a. A person between birth and puberty.
b. A person who has not attained maturity or the age of legal majority.
2.
a. An unborn infant; a fetus.
b. An infant; a baby.
3. One who is childish or immature.
4. Someone to whom a specified person is a parent.
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).

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