- [countable] (informal) a child or young person
- Do you have any kids?
- How are the kids (= your children)?
- A bunch of kids were hanging around outside.
- a gang/group of kids
- college/school kids
- street kids who rely on their ingenuity to keep alive
- You're acting like a little kid!
- as a kid I remember reading with my grandmother as a young kid of 6.
- I'm looking forward to getting home to the wife and kids.
- Here are some fun ways to teach your kids about healthy eating.
- The kids love playing outside in the mud.
- The game is aimed at kids of all ages.
Collocations ChildrenChildrenHaving a baby/childsee also boomerang kid, whizz-kid- want a baby/a child/kids
- start a family
- conceive/be expecting/be going to have a baby/child
- miss your period
- become/get/be/find out that you are pregnant
- have a baby/a child/kids/a son/a daughter/twins/a family
- have a normal/a difficult/an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/a difficult/a home birth
- be in/go into/induce labour (especially US English) labor
- have/suffer/cause a miscarriage
- give birth to a child/baby/daughter/son/twins
- bring up/ (especially North American English) raise a child/family
- care for/ (especially British English) look after a baby/child/kid
- change (British English) a nappy/(North American English) a diaper/a baby
- feed/breastfeed/bottle-feed a baby
- be entitled to/go on maternity/paternity leave
- go back/return to work after maternity leave
- need/find/get a babysitter/good quality affordable childcare
- balance/combine work and childcare/child-rearing/family life
- educate/teach/home-school a child/kid
- punish/discipline/spoil a child/kid
- adopt a baby/child/kid
- offer a baby for/put a baby up for adoption
- (especially British English) foster a child/kid
- be placed with/be raised by foster parents
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesa2- She's a bright kid.
- He's only a kid. You can't expect him to understand what's going on.
- I feel desperately sorry for the poor kid.
- I've tried to bring my kids up to respect other people.
- She was crying like a kid.
- The older kids had lessons in the afternoon as well.
- They had adopted three kids.
- They're just a bunch of kids.
- We both wanted to have kids.
- a spoiled little rich kid
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- little
- young
- big
- …
- bunch
- couple
- crowd
- …
- have
- want
- adopt
- …
- just a kid
- only a kid
- like a kid
- …
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- [countable] a young goatTopics Animalsc2
- [uncountable] soft leather made from the skin of a young goat
- a pair of white kid gloves
Word Originnoun Middle English (in sense (3)): from Old Norse kith, of Germanic origin; related to German Kitze.
Idioms
See kid in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryhandle/treat, etc. somebody with kid gloves
- to deal with somebody in a very careful way so that you do not offend or upset them
- Treat her with kid gloves—she's very sensitive.
kids’ stuff (British English)
(North American English kid stuff)
- something that is so easy to do or understand that it is thought to be not very serious or only suitable for children
- That was kids' stuff compared with what lies ahead.
- The movie is pure kids' stuff from beginning to end.
a/the new kid on the block
- (informal) a person who is new to a place, an organization, etc.
- Despite his six years in politics, he was still regarded by many as the new kid on the block.
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