infant
a child during the earliest period of their life, especially before they can walk; baby.
Law. a person who is not of full age, especially one who has not reached the age of 18 years; a minor.
a beginner, as in experience or learning; novice: The new candidate is a political infant.
anything in the first stage of existence or progress.
Origin of infant
1Other words from infant
- in·fant·hood, noun
- in·fant·like, adjective
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How to use infant in a sentence
A dark minivan quickly fills with pregnant women and those carrying infants.
Inside the Smuggling Networks Flooding Europe with Refugees | Barbie Latza Nadeau | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA much larger number are immediately separated from their infants, who are typically placed in some form of out-of-home care.
Joshua puts to the sword women, infants, and animals at Jericho.
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It is possible—as in urate infarcts of infants—for urates to be molded into cylindric bodies within the renal tubules.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddNormally, erythroblasts are present only in the blood of the fetus and of very young infants.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThe stools of infants are yellow, owing partly to their milk diet and partly to the presence of unchanged bilirubin.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddA sour odor is normal for nursing infants, and is noted in mild diarrheas of older children.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddAnd have you lived to see thirty, and never learnt that men don't count for anything in the bringing up of infants?
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry Wood
British Dictionary definitions for infant
/ (ˈɪnfənt) /
a child at the earliest stage of its life; baby
law another word for minor (def. 10)
British a young schoolchild, usually under the age of seven
a person who is beginning or inexperienced in an activity
(modifier)
of or relating to young children or infancy
designed or intended for young children
in an early stage of development; nascent: an infant science or industry
law of or relating to the legal status of infancy
Origin of infant
1Derived forms of infant
- infanthood, noun
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