About The Word Infant
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Infant
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What's The Definition Of Infant?
[n] a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; "isn't she too young to have a baby?"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Infant: babe | baby Related Terms | Find terms related to Infant: abecedarian | aboriginal | adolescent | angel | antenatal | apprentice | arrested | autochthonous | babe | babish | baby | baby bunting | babyish | bambino | bantling | bay | beginner | beginning | budding | callow | catechumen | child | child of nature | classmate | creative | deb | debutant | defective | deficient | dollish | doll-like | dove | dupe | elemental | elementary | embryonic | entrant | failing | fellow student | fetal | fledgling | formative | foundational | freshman | fundamental | gestatory | grade schooler | green | greenhorn | greeny | hick | high schooler | hopeful | hypoplastic | immature | in arms | in arrear | in arrears | in default | in diapers | in embryo | in its infancy | in nappies | in short supply | in swaddling clothes | in the bud | in the cradle | inadequate | inaugural | inceptive | inchoate | inchoative | incipient | incomplete | incubator baby | incunabular | infantile | infantine | ingenue | initial | initiative | initiatory | innocent | intermediate schooler | introductory | inventive | junior | juvenal | juvenile | kindergartner | kittenish | lacking | lamb | learner | little angel | little darling | lout | mere child | mewling infant | minor | missing | nascent | natal | needing | neonatal | neonate | neophyte | nestling | newborn | newborn babe | newcomer | noble savage | novice | novitiate | nursery school child | nursling | oaf | original | papoose | part | partial | parturient | patchy | postnatal | preemie | pregnant | premature baby | prenatal | prep schooler | preschool child | preschooler | primal | primary | primary schooler | prime | primeval | primitive | primogenial | probationer | procreative | pubescent | puling infant | raw recruit | recruit | rookie | rube | rudimental | rudimentary | sapling | scant | scanty | school child | school kid | school lad | schoolboy | schoolfellow | schoolgirl | schoolmate | scrappy | secondary schooler | short | shy | simple soul | sketchy | slip | sprig | stripling | suckling | teenager | teener | teenybopper | tenderfoot | toddler | trainee | tyro | underdeveloped | undeveloped | unfledged | unripe | unsophisticate | ur | wanting | weanling | yearling | yokel | young hopeful | young person | younger | youngest | youngling | youngster | youth | youthful See Also | abandoned infant | blue baby | cherub | child | foundling | godchild | kid | neonate | newborn | newborn baby | newborn infant | nurseling | nursling | papoose | pappoose | suckling | test-tube baby | war baby Infant In Webster's Dictionary \In"fant\, n. [L. infans; pref. in- not + fari to speak:
cf. F. enfant, whence OE. enfaunt. See {Fame}, and cf.
{Infante}, {Infanta}.]
1. A child in the first period of life, beginning at his
birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of
age.
And tender cries of infants pierce the ear. --C.
Pitt.
2. (Law) A person who is not of full age, or who has not
attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age
of twenty-one years; a minor.
Note: An infant under seven years of age is not penally
responsible; between seven and fourteen years of age,
he may be convicted of a malicious offense if malice be
proved. He becomes of age on the day preceding his
twenty-first birthday, previous to which time an infant
has no capacity to contract.
3. Same as {Infante}. [Obs.] --Spenser.
\In"fant\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength. 2. Intended for young children; as, an infant school. \In"fant\, v. t. [Cf. F. enfanter.] To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general. [Obs.] This worthy motto, ``No bishop, no king,'' is . . . infanted out of the same fears. --Milton. |
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