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.