"children" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Middle English children",
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          "ref": "2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18",
          "text": "Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.",
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        "plural of child."
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          "english": "except in Ireland",
          "tags": [
            "archaic"
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          "word": "childer"
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            "rare"
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          "word": "childs"
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          "word": "chillen"
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          "word": "chillun"
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          "word": "chirren"
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      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian",
        "New-Zealand",
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[tʃɪl.ɹən]",
      "tags": [
        "African-American-Vernacular-English",
        "Southern-American-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃɪl.d̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷən]",
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        "Canada",
        "General-American"
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      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃʊldɹən/",
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        "New-Zealand",
        "UK",
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃʊld̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷən]",
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        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/",
      "tags": [
        "Hong-Kong"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃɪl.dən/",
      "tags": [
        "Hong-Kong"
      ]
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      "rhymes": "-ɪldɹən"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ʊldɹən"
    },
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English children, alteration of earlier childre (\"children\"; > English dialectal childer), from Old English ċildru, ċildra (“children”), nominative and accusative plural of ċild (“child”), equivalent to child + -ren.",
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        "English terms inherited from Old English",
        "English terms suffixed with -ren",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
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        "Rhymes:English/ɪldɹən",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪldɹən/2 syllables",
        "Rhymes:English/ʊldɹən",
        "Rhymes:English/ʊldɹən/2 syllables"
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      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/",
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        "Hong-Kong"
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      "tags": [
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  "word": "children"
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