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# infant

«infant» in Mova's school dictionary: **a baby or a very young child, especially one who cannot…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an infant, infants); adjective (infant)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An infant is a baby or a very young child, especially one who cannot yet walk or talk well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#m1)

2) (UK) Infants are the youngest children in primary school, about ages four to seven; an infant school is for them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#m2)

3) Infant can describe something new that has just begun: an infant company. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In health and safety: car seats for infants, never shake an infant. In UK schools: infant school, the infants. In science: the stages of life — infant, child, teenager, adult. Phrases: infant school, newborn infant, infant formula.

### examples

- The infant slept in her cot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x1)
- Infants need milk many times a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x2)
- My little brother is in the infants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x3)
- Always strap an infant into a car seat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x4)
- Infant school comes before junior school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x5)
- The infant smiled for the first time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x6)
- The infant was away with a nurse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x7)

### note

Countable: an infant (vowel sound). Noun: infancy (the time of being a baby). Formal or medical word; in everyday speech say "baby". Infant mortality is a formal phrase for babies who die.

### In the corpora

- [At an infant baptism, parents and godparents make promises to bring the child up in the faith.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/11/)
- [Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.54/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «infant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.