Synonyms for infant
ˈɪn fəntin·fant

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1. baby, babe, infantnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   baby, child, babe, sister

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1. infantnoun

   Synonyms:
   babe, baby, nursling, suckling, chit, brat, bantling, BAIRN, little child, little one

2. infantnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) minor

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1. infantnoun

   Synonyms:
   baby, minor

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1. List of paraphrases for "infant":

   child, infants, infantile, babies, baby, newborn, childhood, neonatal, walkers, lactating, childish, infantil, nascent, neonate, children, pediatric

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1. List of known nicknames for "Infant":

   Andrew Fearn

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1. Francis Bacon:

   It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

2. Sara Rosenbaum:

   It is as if somebody came down with a magic marker and circled the states least equipped to deal with an abortion ban and with the largest percentage of their population falling into the most elevated risk categories, so, you are setting up a prescription for phenomenal effects in terms of maternal mortality, infant mortality, infant low birthweight, all of the risks that follow from these kinds of [ unplanned or unwanted ] pregnancies.

3. Karen Clark:

   We don't see this as political at all, we see this as theological, we know that this infant baby Jesus... grew up to be a Christ who calls us to compassion for our neighbor, compassion for one another.

4. Judith Sherman:

   The results, once they are available, they need to be brought back to the health facility and communicated to the mother and while many efforts have been made to shorten each leg of that continuum, we need to do better. Mothers are still waiting up to two months for those test results and that can be a very long period in an HIV positive infant's life.

5. Jana Iverson:

   For example, if an infant crawls over to something on the other side of the room, talk to her about it, or if an infant stands up while holding a toy and makes eye contact, comment on the toy and what the infant is doing, these types of rich responses have been demonstrated time and again to influence infants ’ cognitive and language development in positive ways.