child vs person

person vs child

child and person both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
child	Yes	No	No	No
person	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, person is a hypernym of child; that is, person is a word with a broader meaning than child:

child: an immature childish person
person: a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

Other hypernyms of child include individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul.

child (noun)	person (noun)
a young person of either sex	a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age	a human body (usually including the clothing)
an immature childish person	a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
a member of a clan or tribe

Difference between child and person

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