infant
part of speech
noun (an infant, infants); adjective (infant)
meaning for a pupil
1) An infant is a baby or a very young child, especially one who cannot yet walk or talk well. tree →
2) (UK) Infants are the youngest children in primary school, about ages four to seven; an infant school is for them. tree →
3) Infant can describe something new that has just begun: an infant company. tree →
sense in the lessons
In health and safety: car seats for infants, never shake an infant. In UK schools: infant school, the infants. In science: the stages of life — infant, child, teenager, adult. Phrases: infant school, newborn infant, infant formula.
examples
- The infant slept in her cot. tree →
- Infants need milk many times a day. tree →
- My little brother is in the infants. tree →
- Always strap an infant into a car seat. tree →
- Infant school comes before junior school. tree →
- The infant smiled for the first time. tree →
- The infant was away with a nurse. tree →
note
Countable: an infant (vowel sound). Noun: infancy (the time of being a baby). Formal or medical word; in everyday speech say "baby". Infant mortality is a formal phrase for babies who die.
In the corpora
- At an infant baptism, parents and godparents make promises to bring the child up in the faith.
- Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «infant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.