In 23 years of teaching, I have never heard children referred to as "dumb" among colleagues.

The child, the woman said, was referring to vials of crack.

Peter Catherwood finally snapped when the child referred to him by his second name.

On the other hand, the swollen woman and child "held in her lap" may refer to a pregnancy.

A child referred to a specialist can end up on a waiting list for months in some parts of the United States.

Children in the area sometimes refer to it as the "ammo dump".

The children refer to him as Prezbo because they cannot pronounce his name.

Child (and its plural, children) normally refers to a person who is not yet an adult.

The children all were previously subjected to cruel experiments and treatment at a building referred to as the "School".

A child referred to his inflatable plastic fish as a fis.