child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling

a young person of either sex (between birth and puberty); "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"

• bairn — (in Scotland) a child: son or daughter
• buster — a robust child
• changeling — a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
• foster-child — a child who is raised by foster parents
• imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag — one who is playfully mischievous
• kiddy — a young child
• orphan — a child who has lost both parents
• pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny — (offensive) a Black child
• preschooler — a child who attends a preschool
• schoolchild, pupil — a child attending school
• silly — a word used for misbehaving children
• sprog — (British) a child
• toddler, yearling, tot, bambino — a young child
• urchin — poor and often mischievous city child
• waif — a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned

• juvenile, juvenile person — a youthful person

• child's body — the body of a human child