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UK
/ˈɪnfənt/
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[ US /ˈɪnfənt/ ]
[ US /ˈɪnfənt/ ]
NOUN
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a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
the baby began to cry again
it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different
she held the baby in her arms
How To Use infant In A Sentence
- Baby and Infant Products, Flap Hats, Swim Diapers, Swimwear Outwear, Sleeping Bags.
- The two variables are infant mortality per 1000 live births and gross national product per head.
- Yea, we see in that wailing infant of a week, the outspringing of an immortal spirit which may soon hover on cherub-pinion around the throne of God, or perhaps, in a few years, sink to the regions of untold anguish. The Christian Home
- The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
- As a holder of the Combat Infantrymans Badge, it and my Parachute badge are still on my old field jacket, as is the 173 Abn Bde patch on the right shoulder. Why Life is Now More Complicated
- A flanking attack on Antigonus' troops from Spartan light infantry stationed in the Oenus valley was thwarted by an aggressive cavalry attack led by the Achaean general Philopoemen.
- Food sharing with nonkin reduces the costs to kin of child rearing, but also reduces the resources recaptured by kin after an infant death, so evolved infant mortality is lower. Archive 2008-06-01
- Except as noted below, data on all cause and cause specific child and infant mortality and of age distribution of child and infant mortality were regional estimates or other aggregates.
- There is Pricey, an infantile young woman who cares for her rag doll child as if it was alive.
- If an infant's condition is not as grave as was thought, he will live, and he can then be given optimal care if he has any handicaps.