# children

Pronunciation: say "CHIL-druhn" /ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/

## Noun

1. Plural of child. — plural of child
   - Simple: Plural of child. Use it when you mean more than one child.
   - _The school enrolled over three hundred children this year._
   - _Several children waited at the bus stop in the rain._

## Origin

"Children" comes from Middle English "children," an altered form of the earlier "childre." This goes back to Old English "ċildru"/"ċildra," the plural of "ċild" ("child"), essentially "child" plus the plural ending "-ren."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/children (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).