The difference between Child and Offspring

When used as nouns, child means a person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority), whereas offspring means a person's daughter(s) and/or son(s).

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  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. Offspring as a noun:

    A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.

  2. Offspring as a noun:

    All of a person's descendants, including further generations.

  3. Offspring as a noun:

    An animal or plant's progeny or young.

  4. Offspring as a noun (figuratively):

    Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.

    Examples:

    "Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring."

  5. Offspring as a noun (computing):

    A process launched by another process.

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