nestling vs street child

street child vs nestling

nestling and street child both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
nestling	Yes	No	No	No
street child	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, street child is a hyponym of nestling; that is, street child is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than nestling:

nestling: a young person of either sex
street child: a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned

Other hyponyms of nestling include bairn, buster, changeling, child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child, foster-child, foster child, fosterling, imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, kiddie, kiddy, orphan, peanut, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, poster child, kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler, silly, sprog, bambino, toddler, tot, yearling, urchin, waif.

nestling (noun)	street child (noun)
young bird not yet fledged	a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
a young person of either sex

Difference between nestling and street child

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