Results for infant

Definitions of infant:

part of speech: adjective

Pertaining to the earliest stages of childhood, or to the legal period of minority; immature.

part of speech: adjective

Belonging to infants or to infancy: tender: intended for infants.

part of speech: noun

A young child; popularly, a child under two years; in law, a person who has not attained the age of twenty- one.

part of speech: noun

A babe; a child; in law, a person under 21 years.

part of speech: adjective

Tender; young; immature.

part of speech: noun

A babe: in law, a person under 21 years of age, though for many purposes both boys and girls attain their majority at 18.

Usage examples for infant:

• He used to carry me in his arms when I was an infant "Isaac T. Hopper", L. Maria Child

• She appeared to them in a dream, the infant Christ in her arms, and bade them erect to her a church on the Esquiline, at a spot she indicated. "Murillo", S. L. Bensusan

• Seeing my father beside me, and thinking of his infant with its mother, eating her heart out with anxiety at home, this was the reasoning which took possession of me. "My Brilliant Career", Miles Franklin