The difference between Child and Father

When used as nouns, child means a person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority), whereas father means a (generally human) male who begets a child.

Father is also verb with the meaning: to be a father to.

check bellow for the other definitions of Child and Father

  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."

  1. Father as a noun:

    A (generally human) male who begets a child.

    Examples:

    "My father was a strong influence on me."

    "My friend Tony just became a father."

  2. Father as a noun:

    A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.

  3. Father as a noun:

    Examples:

    "Come, father; you can sit here."

  4. Father as a noun:

  5. Father as a noun:

    A person who plays the role of a father in some way.

    Examples:

    "My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced."

    "The child is father to the man."

  6. Father as a noun:

    The founder of a discipline or science.

    Examples:

    "Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics."

  7. Father as a noun:

    Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.

  8. Father as a noun:

    A senator of Ancient Rome.

  1. Father as a verb:

    To be a father to; to sire.

  2. Father as a verb (figuratively):

    To give rise to.

  3. Father as a verb:

    To act as a father; to support and nurture.

  4. Father as a verb:

    To provide with a father.

  5. Father as a verb:

    To adopt as one's own.

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