Definition of Infant

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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.

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Infant Quotations

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
William Blake

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

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
Brendan Behan

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Stephen Fry

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
Denis Diderot

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

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
Robert Anton Wilson

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Don Marquis

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
Margaret Sanger

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
Lionel Blue

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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