infant — ozdic

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(noun.)

ADJ

young

Young infants need to sleep many hours each day for healthy development.

newborn | unborn | stillborn

pre-term, premature

The hospital's neonatal unit specializes in caring for pre-term infants born several weeks early.

full-term | healthy, normal | low birthweight

human

Doctors studied how the human infant learns to recognize faces within the first few months of life.

female, male

screaming, sleeping

The nurse gently rocked the screaming infant until it finally fell asleep.

INFANT + NOUN

death, mortality

Many developing nations have made progress in reducing infant mortality over the past decade.

child, daughter, son

PHRASES

sudden infant death syndrome

Definitions

noun

1

A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.

2

A minor.

Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ...

3

A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school.

4

A noble or aristocratic youth.

Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].

adj

1

Of or pertaining to the earlier half of primary school education.

Primary schooling in Ireland comprises two Infant years, which are equivalent to pre-school in other countries , and six grades or classes.

Clearly, from the attention given to it, HMI believed that history should be part of the infant curriculum.

2

small, being near its source.

Leaving Nantyglo, a small station at an altitude of 1,030 ft. with the platform on the eastern side, the train runs northwards over former G.W.R. metals, with the infant River Ebbw, a little more than a yard wide, on the west.

verb

1

To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.

This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is […] infanted out of the same fears.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun t

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

floppy infant syndrome

Hypotonia.

Example Bank

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Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his moth

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Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].

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03

Primary schooling in Ireland comprises two Infant years, which are equivalent to pre-school in other countries , and six grades or classes.

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Clearly, from the attention given to it, HMI believed that history should be part of the infant curriculum.

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Leaving Nantyglo, a small station at an altitude of 1,030 ft. with the platform on the eastern side, the train runs northwards over former G.W.R. metals, with the infant River Ebbw, a little more than

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This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is […] infanted out of the same fears.

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, infant is marked as obsolete, figuratively, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.