Definitions for infant

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infant in·fant

Spelling: [in-fuh nt]

IPA: /ˈɪn fənt/

Infant is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in infant (afinnt).

Definitions for infant

noun

1. a child during the earliest period of its life, especially before he or she can walk; baby.
2. Law. a person who is not of full age, especially one who has not reached the age of 18 years; a minor.
3. a beginner, as in experience or learning; novice:
4. anything in the first stage of existence or progress.

adjective

1. of or relating to infants or infancy:
2. being in infancy:
3. being in the earliest stage:
4. of or relating to the legal state of infancy; minor.

Origin of infant

1350-1400; Latin infant- (stem of infāns) small child, literally, one unable to speak, equivalent to in- in-³ + -fāns, present participle of fārī to speak; r

Examples for infant

He led America out of revolutionary victory into infant nationhood.

Within six days, however, the infant was admitted to a pediatric hospital with diarrhea, bluish skin, and respiratory failure.

Two bowls were set before the infant—one containing gold and jewels, the other hot coals.

An infant too young to have received his first round of shots gasps for air after having been infected with pertussis.

I was with him when he died, but knew not the hour he departed, for he sunk to rest like an infant.

Even while he was an infant in the cradle a strange accident had befallen hum.

This may happen if her own son be an infant, or very far off, or if she have no son.

Even when an infant, and in your cradle, you had a soul for poetry.

Increased access to reproductive healthcare has resulted in better maternal and infant health outcomes.

Next door is a shop selling fake vintage Ramones cover T-shirts and infant onesises.