The difference between Babe and Child

When used as nouns, babe means a baby or infant, whereas child means a person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).

check bellow for the other definitions of Babe and Child

  1. Babe as a noun (literary, or, poetic):

    A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.

    Examples:

    "These events came to pass when he was but a babe."

  2. Babe as a noun (slang):

    An attractive person, especially a young woman.

    Examples:

    "She's a real babe!"

  3. Babe as a noun:

    Darling .

    Examples:

    "Hey, babe, how's about you and me getting together?"

  1. Child as a noun:

    A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)

    Examples:

    "Go easy on him: he is but a child."

  2. Child as a noun:

    a female child, a girl.

  3. Child as a noun:

    One's son or daughter, regardless of age.

    Examples:

    "My youngest child is forty-three."

  4. Child as a noun (cartomancy):

    The thirteenth Lenormand card.

  5. Child as a noun (computing):

    A figurative offspring, particularly: A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age. Anything derived from or caused by something. A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.

    Examples:

    "The children of Israel."

    "He is a child of his times."

    "Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war."

    "The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node."

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