TODDLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toddler mean? 

• TODDLER (noun)
  The noun TODDLER has 1 sense:

1. a young child

  Familiarity information: TODDLER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TODDLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young child

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bambino; toddler; tot; yearling

Hypernyms ("toddler" is a kind of...):

child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster (a young person of either sex)

Derivation:

toddle (walk unsteadily)

 Context examples 

The study team conducted eye-tracking experiments in a group of 250 typically developing toddlers ages 18 to 24 months.

(Children’s visual engagement is heritable and altered in autism, National Institutes of Health)

A new study finds that infants and toddlers in low-income communities may be even more at risk from second -hand smoke exposure than has been thought.

(Infants, Toddlers at More Risk from Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke than Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Breast milk contains the right balance of nutrients to help your infant grow into a strong and healthy toddler.

(Breastfeeding, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

The star is just two million years old – a ‘toddler’ in astronomical terms – and is surrounded by a huge disc of dust and ice.

(Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets form, University of Cambridge)

Too many hours looking at smartphones and tablets 'slows down toddlers' language and reading development because it changes the structure of their brains.

(Too Much Screen Time Changes Structure of Toddlers' Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There was his wife, Alice, and then there were his children, Weedon and Maud, toddlers of four and six.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In a remote village, an aid worker pricks a sickly toddler's fingertip and, like most of the other village children's blood samples, this one turns a test strip yellow.

(Test for life-threatening nutrient deficit is made from bacteria entrails, National Science Foundation)

And again, she would send one of her toddlers in to him with a great pitcher of hot soup, debating inwardly the while whether she was justified in taking it from the mouths of her own flesh and blood.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)