Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: infant
IPA transcription: ['ɪnfənt]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: baby, babe, infant
    Meaning: a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; "the baby began to cry again"; "she held the baby in her arms"; "it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different"
Usage examples
  • I am like an infant which has not yet smiled.
  • The servitors set forth, bearing the infant with them.
  • He had come to them mysteriously, alone in a ship, when an infant.]
  • It will be the best thing that could befall a lusty infant heretic.
  • Thus benignly fostered by the good St. Nicholas, the infant city thrived apace.
  • A. Burwell, was somewhat unsettled in his business affairs, and while I was yet an infant he made several removals.
  • Be that as it may, the author was brought an infant into this valley, and all his first impressions were here obtained.
  • The never-to-be-forgotten music of the Fatherland's-speech has on my infant ear from the first-beginning impressed itself.'
  • His words at the time (I was then an infant, but so deep was their impression on me, that I committed them to memory) were:
  • Next morning the Delphic priestess discovered the infant, and was so charmed by his engaging appearance that she adopted him as her own son.