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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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Proper footgear for the Confederate infantry was in shortest supply.
- Minerva has noticed a growing enthusiasm for using infant bath seats in adult bathtubs.
- They wanted me to bring my US passport, and Mexican Visa, but instead of two black and white infantil size photos, they wanted color photos here in Morelos and they only wanted a color copy of the pages in my passport and FM3 visa showing my photo and the page of the FM3 visa that I had then showing the prorrogas (renewals) to verify who I am and that I live here legally. Page 2
- 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.
- The conceptus, like the infant, the child, and the adolescent, is a being who is in the process of unfolding its potential; that is, the potential to grow and develop itself but not to change what it is.