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Definition of Infant

Infant A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age. 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. Same as Infante. Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength. Intended for young children; as, an infant school. To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general. Related Definitions: Age, An, As, At, Attained, Babe, Bear, Beginning, Birth, Bring, Capacity, Child, Children, First, For, Forth, Full, General, Hence, His, Has, In, Infancy, Infant, Infante, Intended, Is, Legal, Life, Mature, Minor, Not, Of, Or, Period, Person, Pertaining, Produce, Same, School, Several, Sometimes, Strength, Tender, The, To, Under, Who, Young

Infant Quotations It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. Francis Bacon Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. Jack Henry Abbott Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant. Leigh Hunt Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire. William Blake Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation. Alcee Hastings

Infant Translations infant in Afrikaans is kind infant in Danish is barn infant in Dutch is kind infant in Finnish is lapsi infant in French is enfant, poupon infant in German is Kleinkind, Kind infant in Italian is fanciullo, fanciulla infant in Latin is parvulus infant in Norwegian is spedbarn

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