newborn

«newborn» in Mova's school dictionary: Just born, only a few hours, days or weeks old: «a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (newborn); noun (a newborn, newborns)

meaning for a pupil

1) Just born, only a few hours, days or weeks old: «a newborn baby», «a newborn lamb». tree →

2) (noun) A baby that has just been born. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on life cycles: newborn animals need milk and care from their parents; some, like foals, can walk within hours, while human newborns cannot. In family life: «a newborn brother or sister», help by being quiet when the baby sleeps. In stories it shows something very young and fragile.

examples

• My aunt has a newborn baby girl. tree →
• The newborn lambs stayed close to their mothers. tree →
• A newborn baby sleeps most of the day. tree →
• Newborns need milk every few hours. tree →
• The newborn foal stood up on wobbly legs. tree →
• Wash your hands before you hold a newborn. tree →

note

One word: newborn (sometimes «new-born»). As a noun it is countable: a newborn, newborns. A newborn baby is also called an «infant»; a newborn human is about 50 centimetres long and weighs about 3 to 4 kilograms.

In the corpora

• A newborn baby changes a whole house.
• A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny.
• A newborn calf stands within about an hour so that it can drink milk and keep up with the herd.
• "Bundle of joy" means a newborn baby.
• Marsupials, such as kangaroos and koalas, carry their tiny newborns in a pouch.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «newborn» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.