child

enfant

Personne jeune qui n’est pas encore adulte.

En anglais simple : A young person who has not yet become an adult.

• The child is asleep.
• The children played outside after school.
• How old was your child when she learned to read?

Synonymes : kid, youngster

Contraires : adult

Expressions courantes : young child, small child, child development

enfant

Le fils ou la fille de quelqu’un, quel que soit son âge.

En anglais simple : Someone’s son or daughter, whatever their age.

• She has one child.
• All their children have left home.
• His eldest child is forty now.

Comment l'utiliser : someone’s child (Their youngest child is now a doctor.)

Synonymes : offspring, son or daughter

Contraires : parent

Expressions courantes : only child, adult child, eldest child

enfant, produit

Personne dont les idées et le comportement ont été fortement influencés par une époque, un lieu ou une expérience.

En anglais simple : A person whose ideas and behaviour were strongly shaped by a particular time, place, or experience.

• He is a child of his time.
• As children of the war, they valued peace.
• She remains a child of the culture that shaped her.

Comment l'utiliser : a child of something (She is a child of the digital age.)

Synonymes : product

Expressions courantes : child of someone, child of something

enfant, nœud enfant

Donnée, objet ou processus placé sous un autre dans l’organisation d’un système informatique.

En anglais simple : A data item, object, or process that belongs under another in a computer system.

• This node has one child.
• The program created two child processes.
• Each child inherits settings from its parent.

Contraires : parent

Expressions courantes : child node, child process, child object

fruit, produit

Ce qui naît d’une idée, d’un événement ou d’un effort particulier.

En anglais simple : Something that was produced by a particular idea, event, or effort.

• The book was a child of hope.
• This invention is the child of years of research.
• Their new festival was a child of that cultural movement.

Comment l'utiliser : a child of something (The project is a child of their shared imagination.)

Synonymes : product, result

Expressions courantes : child of something, a child of

enfant

Dans « with child », désigne le bébé attendu ; l’expression signifie être enceinte.

En anglais simple : In the phrase with child, expecting a baby.

• She was with child.
• They learned that the princess was with child.
• He returned to find his wife with child.

Comment l'utiliser : be with child (The queen was with child again.)

Expressions courantes : with child, be with child