Tra từ kid - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

kid [kid kids kidded kidding] noun, verb, adjective BrE [kɪd] NAmE [kɪd]
noun
1. countable (informal)a child or young person
• A bunch of kids were hanging around outside.
•a kid of 15
• She's a bright kid.
•How are the kids (= your children)?
•Do you have any kids? Kid is much more common than child in informal and spoken NAmE.
2. countable a young ↑goat
3. uncountable soft leather made from the skin of a young ↑goat
•a pair of white kid gloves
more at a new kid on the block at ↑new

Word Origin:
n. Middle English Old Norse kith Germanic German Kitze v. early 19th cent. ↑kid

Thesaurus:
kid noun C (informal)
•He's just a kid. You can't expect him to understand.
child • • boy • • girl • • toddler • • baby • • teenager • |informal youngster • |especially BrE, informal lad • |especially AmE, informal teen • |often disapproving youth • |informal, disapproving brat • |formal technical infant • |law minor • • juvenile •
Opp: grown-up, Opp: adult
a young kid/child/boy/girl/baby/teenager/lad/infant
a spoiled kid/child/brat
look after/take care of a kid/child/baby
Kid or child? Kid is much more frequent in informal and spoken American English. Child is not often used of sb older than about 12; above that age you can call them kids, teenagers, young people, girls, youths or lads.

Collocations:
Children
Having a baby/child
want a baby/a child/kids
start a family
conceive/be expecting/be going to have a baby/child
miss your period
become/get/ be/find out that you are pregnant
have a baby/a child/kids/a son/a daughter/twins/a family
have a normal/a difficult/an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/a difficult/a home birth
be in/go into/induce labour (especially US) labor
have/suffer/cause a miscarriage
give birth to a child/baby/daughter/son/twins
Parenting
bring up/ (especially NAmE) raise a child/family
care for/ (especially BrE) look after a baby/child/kid
change (BrE) a nappy/(NAmE) a diaper/a baby
feed/breastfeed/bottle-feed a baby
be entitled to/go on maternity/paternity leave
go back/return to work after maternity leave
need/find/get a babysitter/good quality affordable childcare
balance/combine work and childcare/child-rearing/family life
educate/teach/home-school a child/kid
punish/discipline/spoil a child/kid
adopt a baby/child/kid
offer a baby for/put a baby up for adoption
(especially BrE) foster a child/kid
be placed with/be raised by foster parents

Example Bank:
•He's only a kid. You can't expect him to understand what's going on.
•Here are some fun ways to teach your kids about healthy eating.
•I feel desperately sorry for the poor kid.
•I was the fat kid through most of my teenage years.
•I've tried to bring my kids up to respect other people.
•Now what are you two crazy kids doing?
•She had offered to watch the kids many times so Toby could go out.
•She had wanted more kids.
•She was crying like a kid.
•She was just a normal kid.
•That was kids' stuff compared with what lies ahead.
•The movie is pure kids' stuff from beginning to end.
•The older kids had lessons in the afternoon as well.
•They had adopted three kids.
•They had sixteen foster kids and two of their own.
•They're just a bunch of kids.
•We both wanted to have kids.
•a gang of local kids
•a skinny little kid who looked to be no older than fourteen
•a spoiled little rich kid
•legislation to protect kids from violence and harassment in their schools
•street kids who rely on their ingenuity to keep alive
•How are the kids?
•I have to take the/my kids to school
Idioms: ↑kids' stuff ▪ ↑no kidding ▪ ↑treat somebody with kid gloves ▪ ↑you must be kidding ▪ ↑you're kidding
Derived: ↑kid around

verb (-dd-)(informal)
1. intransitive, transitive (usually used in the progressive tenses)to tell sb sth that is not true, especially as a joke
Syn: ↑joke
•I thought he was kidding when he said he was going out with a rock star.
•I didn't mean it. I was only kidding.
•~ sb I'm not kidding you. It does work.
2. transitive to allow sb/yourself to believe sth that is not true
Syn: ↑deceive
•~ sb/yourself They're kidding themselves if they think it's going to be easy.
•~ sb/yourself (that)… I tried to kid myself (that) everything was normal.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
n. Middle English Old Norse kith Germanic German Kitze v. early 19th cent. ↑kid

Example Bank:
•Don't look so worried— I was just kidding.
•He was only kidding about the car having disappeared.
•Oh come on, who are you trying to kid?.
•I didn't mean it. I was only kidding.
•I'm not kidding you. It does work.
•Of course you don't have to work at weekends— I was only joking/kidding!
•She fired you? You're kidding! Why?
•They're kidding themselves if they think it's going to be easy.
•Were you joking/kidding when you told him to leave?

adjective ~ sister/brother (informal, especially NAmE)
a person's younger sister/brother

Word Origin:
n. Middle English Old Norse kith Germanic German Kitze v. early 19th cent. ↑kid

See also: ↑kid stuff