infant
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
infant/ˈɪnfənt/
▶noun
- 1 a very young child or baby.
- 2 Brit. a schoolchild between the ages of five and seven.
- 3 [as modifier] denoting something in an early stage of development: the infant universe.
- 4 Law a person who has not attained legal majority.
– origin ME: from OFr. enfant, from L. infant- ‘unable to speak’, from in- ‘not’ + fant-, fari ‘speak’.
'infant' also found in these Oxford entries:
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- babe
- baby
- coatee
- fontanelle
- foundling
- haemolytic disease of the newborn
- Hib
- infante
- infanticide
- infant mortality
- infantry
- magi
- meconium
- neonate
- reception
- SIDS
- stillbirth
- sudden infant death syndrome
- teat
- teething ring
- toilet
- wean
- wet nurse
