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Added 8 October 2026

kid

/ˈkɪd/ symbol

In Latin: haedus Wiktionary

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ISO 639-3 language code for Koshin.

noun

A child, adolescent, or a young adult.
She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.
A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.
Only '90s kids will remember this toy.
One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
This is Bobby, he is our youngest kid.

verb

To dupe or deceive.
Are you kidding me?
To deceive or dupe as a joke.
Stop kidding me! It's not funny.
To deceive oneself by having unrealistic expectations.
You're kidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar.

noun

A seed pod, usually of a leguminous plant.

Origin

From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec. The sense of child has been in use since the 1590s as slang, and since the 1840s in informal use.

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