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English Dictionary: child's play	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for child's play
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
child's play n any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" Synonym(s): cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules; "Freud believed in the utility of play to a small child" Synonym(s): play, child's play
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Child \Child\ (ch[imac]ld), n.; pl. {Children} (ch[icr]l"dr[ecr]n). [AS. cild, pl. cildru; cf. Goth. kil[ed]ei womb, in-kil[ed][d3] with child.] 1. A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants. 2. A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom. 3. One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people. 4. A noble youth. See {Childe}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 5. A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc. When I was child. I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. --1. Cor. xii. 11. 6. A female infant. [Obs.] A boy or a child, I wonder? --Shak. {To be with child}, to be pregnant. {Child's play}, light work; a trifling contest.