Child and Play

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Child noun - A young person who is between infancy and adulthood.

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Play and child are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Play" instead a noun "Child".

Play noun - Activity engaged in to amuse oneself.

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Child and play are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Child" instead a noun "Play".

Nearby Words: played, playful, player, playfulness, playing

old	old child	old play
good	good child	good play
normal	normal child	normal play
perfect	perfect child	perfect play
Other adjectives: original, single, poor, actual, real, serious, little, lost, new, titular, next, last, said.

The idea was to play up the notion that a mother is even more attached to her child than a father, particularly if the child is a girl.

Source: Gender Flip
This was due to the child actor who played him aging too quickly to play an immortal child.

Source: Informed Ability / Live-Action TV
It turns out that her mother actually thought this would be meaningful to her, though - apparently, she and Jill used to play tea party with the old set when Jill was a child, though as an adult Jill sheepishly admits she can't remember that at all.

Source: My New Gift Is Lame

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