 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
infant
noun: 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?"
[syn: {baby}, {babe}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Infant \In"fant\, noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Infant \In"fant\, adjective
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Infant \In"fant\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
193 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, doll-like, dollish, 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
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