Child and Purpose

Child

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

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

Purpose noun - Something that one hopes or intends to accomplish.

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Child and purpose are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Child" instead a noun "Purpose".

good	good child	good purpose
normal	normal child	normal purpose
original	original child	original purpose
true	true child	true purpose
Other adjectives: single, actual, real, little, new, mysterious, said.

Indeed, in some tales, the older children do not feature as characters; their only purpose is to make the hero a youngest child.

Source: Youngest Child Wins
In the Tenth Anniversary Collection, Watterson muses a bit on the character of Moe, who was written as a bully from a child's perspective; which is to say that being a jerk is Moe's only purpose.

Source: Kids Are Cruel / Other
Tragic Villain: The Master was once a happy child, best buds with the Doctor, and then he was deliberately retroactively brain-damaged as a child by Rassilon, for the purpose of making a gateway.

Source: Recap / Doctor Who S30 E17-18 "The End of Time"

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