Noun

1. More than one son or daughter, or none. Offspring.

   Do you have children?

   Yes, I have three children.

   No, I have no children.

2. More than one young person, or none.

   There are no children absent from classes today

3. Members of a tribe.

   The children of Israel

4. Things or abstractions derived from or caused by something.

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

   • 1991, Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (title)

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