kid

CEFRA1

/ˈkɪd/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A child or young person.

  2. 02

    verb

    To joke with someone or make fun in a friendly way.

Examples

  • Say, he is no more than a kid.

  • We had a kid just last year.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.

  2. A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.

  3. One's son or daughter, regardless of age.

More examples

In context

  • He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Florida kid.

  • Only '90s kids will remember this toy.

  • She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec. The sense of child has been in use since the 1590s as slang, and since the 1840s in informal use.