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infant

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noun

a child during the earliest period of its life, especially before he or she 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.

adjective

of or pertaining to infants or infancy: infant years.

being in infancy: an infant king.

being in the earliest stage: an infant industry.

of or pertaining to the legal state of infancy; minor.

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the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation

that which is provided or enacted in a statute, as distinguished from the preamble

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Origin:
1350–1400; < Latin infant- (stem of infāns) small child, literally, one unable to speak, equivalent to in- in-³ + -fāns, present participle of fārī to speak; replacing Middle English enfaunt < Anglo-French < Latin, as above

Related forms

in·fant·hood, noun

in·fant·like, adjective

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Clean from the front to the back on a female infant, and from the tip of the penis down on a male infant.

She placed the infant in a plastic bag in the bathtub, news reports said.

Nature dictates that slightly more males are born than females to offset boys' greater susceptibility to infant disease.

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Clean from the front to the back on a female infant, and from the tip of the penis down on a male infant.

She placed the infant in a plastic bag in the bathtub, news reports said.

Nature dictates that slightly more males are born than females to offset boys' greater susceptibility to infant disease.

Infant and adult sleep are strikingly similar,a new study on rats says.

The result is a relatively undeveloped infant who needs lots of care and can do much less for itself than other newborn primates.

The result is what astronomers call a nursery of infant and toddler stars.

The jets, which sometimes clump up into little knots and asymmetries, help slow down the infant star's rotation.

Dutch doctors have proposed a procedure for infant mercy killing.

Whatever the merits of breast-feeding, it imposes a short leash on mother and infant.

His tigerish mother moved house three times before settling on one good enough for the infant genius-close to a good school.

The skeleton of an infant holds a guttus, similar to a modern-day baby bottle.

In the next room, a split-screen monitor shows the mother's profile on the left and her infant in a baby chair on the right.

Germany the infant was born at this site in this battle.

Infant planets have been spotted forming in the disk of gas and dust around their stars for the first time.

The room was semi-private, but the other bed was unoccupied, and the mother left the infant alone while she took a shower.

But what wonderful training for taking care of an infant.

Chasing the next infant industry is likely to mean more misses than hits, with a lot of waste and rent-seeking along the way.

The excavation of the palisade also revealed the body of a second infant and the skeleton of a sheep or goat.

Parents beware: diluting infant formula can be deadly.

It has riled environmentalists and birthed an infant high-tech industry of companies.

Haiti had unacceptable infant mortality rates and huge orphan populations before the earthquake.

The disorder is usually detected shortly after birth when feeding is attempted and the infant coughs, chokes, and turns blue.

As his friend's servant feeds his infant son, he realizes that she's crying.

It can be hard enough for parents to comfort the fussy infant.

Infant mortality had been low prior to ecotourism and was primarily caused by disease, the team found.

Mom dies in childbirth and dad helps infant survive.

It has long straps that then encircle your bag in order to attach your infant car seat to the top.

Occasionally, an infant who is not sick will have a low neutrophil count for no apparent reason.

Then there is natural child birth and skip the eye ointment and infant immunizations.

Infant mortality rates are among the highest in the world.

Female gorillas give birth to one infant after a pregnancy of nearly nine months.

The leading cause of infant death in developed countries, sudden infant death syndrome, is still largely a medical mystery.

Female and infant pronghorn are not the only individuals to be killed by coyotes.

Then both mother and infant took the two drugs for one week after delivery.

She slit the throat of a helpless infant with a kitchen knife.

It has been found, for example, that women can predict a man's interest in infant children from his face.

The infant immediately climbs into its mother's pouch and does not emerge for two months.

Then the researchers placed the two objects on a table in front of the infant.

The pacifier was able to measure infant responses to different stimuli by recording the frequency of a baby's sucking.

Outraged on his behalf for his infant abandonment, my mother tried to get my grandpa to admit his plight.

Statistics suggest dalit poverty, infant mortality and illiteracy are much worse than the average.

The initial diagnosis was sudden infant death syndrome, but an autopsy performed two days later revealed internal bleeding.

Obviously you have not seen the effects on a newborn infant of his mother's cocaine addiction.

Two friends were present, and together the three apparently dumped the infant into a sewer near the girl's home.

For decades, infant formula was a placid, magisterially profitable industry with a captive market of newborns.

However, official data show that infant mortality rose.

There, the two find a human infant blackening over the fire on a spit.

Initially, the doctors ruled out infant botulism as a diagnosis, because they knew of no cases in children less than a week old.

By early next year, infant formulas sold in this country may have had an important change in their ingredients.

My infant son goes to a licensed home-based day care.

Infant mortality rates from natural causes appear to be extremely low in the wild.

According to new research, that's if the suckling infant has a certain version of a gene that helps process fatty acids.

Samples of powdered infant formula contain trace levels of a rocket fuel ingredient, a federal study has found.

The infant survived only because she had been given the last of the water by her mother.

Certain areas grow bigger as a mother bonds with her infant.

Now that these unfortunate infant bonobos are constantly exposed to.

The city's new infant mortality data shows continuing disparities among the boroughs and neighborhoods.

In recent experiments, physicists have replicated conditions of the infant universe--with startling results.

The pair would continue their infant cannibalism for two years.

Each begins with a human infant born with connections between different sense-related brain regions.

Chart shows infant mortality rate, cause of death and characteristics of mother.

The infant is thought to have been born by cesarean section.

Before that time, a haze of neutral hydrogen gas shrouded these first beacons in the infant cosmos.

There were other things that were still in the infant stage at the time that this was recorded.

The infant was shot through the door of his grandmother's apartment on.

In fact, infant mortality rates for home births are two or even three times as high as those for hospital births.

Thirty years ago, there were anecdotal reports of a link between whooping-cough vaccination and infant brain damage.

As the animals became more aggressive, overall infant mortality rose.

They are an economic powerhouse with better health care, lower infant mortality, and higher test scores.

She was widowed there two years ago, and left an infant son to come to the capital.

Watch how an infant and a python come together for a photo shoot.

The relation of master to servant is precisely that of infant to mommy/daddy.

The falciparum strain causes miscarriage and infant death.

Physicists have replicated conditions of the infant universe--with startling results.

One infant dies from pneumonia, a premature baby slips away.

Somewhere in the leafy canopy, a female maned sloth and her eight-month-old infant are hidden from view.

Infant mortality falls, and immunisation rates rise.

One infant gained a little more courage with each visit to the nest.

One day, as their rest period was breaking up, a small infant approached him and leaned against his back.

Secondly, there might well be much higher infant mortality among girls.

Recent censuses reveal social progress, with lower infant mortality rates and higher literacy rates.

The mother will clean her pouch and groom the infant often during this phase.

Making your own organic baby food allows you to control the quality, variety and cost of the foods you feed your infant.

Infant mortality is actually three things: chronic starvation, diarrhea, and respiratory infections.

It means infant mortality was high, bringing down the average.

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World English Dictionary

infant (ˈɪnfənt)

—n
1.	a child at the earliest stage of its life; baby
2.	law another word for minor
3.	(Brit) a young schoolchild, usually under the age of seven
4.	a person who is beginning or inexperienced in an activity
5.	(modifier)
	a. of or relating to young children or infancy
	b. designed or intended for young children

—*adj*
6.	in an early stage of development; nascent: an infant science or industry
7.	law of or relating to the legal status of infancy

[C14: from Latin infāns, literally: speechless, from in-¹ + fārī to speak]

'infanthood

—n

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Word Origin & History

infant

1376, "child during earliest period of life" (sometimes extended to age 7), from L. infantem (nom. infans) "young child, babe in arms," noun use of adj. meaning "not able to speak," from in- "not" + fans, prp. of fari "speak" (see fame). Infanticide first attested 1656. Infanta

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"daughter of a king of Spain or Portugal" (1601) is from the Sp. and Port. form of the word. Infantile is 1696, "of or pertaining to infants;" sense of "infant-like" is from 1772.

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Medical Dictionary

infant in·fant (ĭn'fənt)
n.
A child in the earliest period of life, especially before he or she can walk.

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