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# newborn

«newborn» in Mova's school dictionary: **Just born, only a few hours, days or weeks old: «a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (newborn); noun (a newborn, newborns)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Just born, only a few hours, days or weeks old: «a newborn baby», «a newborn lamb». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newborn/#m1)

2) (noun) A baby that has just been born. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newborn/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on life cycles: newborn animals need milk and care from their parents; some, like foals, can walk within hours, while human newborns cannot. In family life: «a newborn brother or sister», help by being quiet when the baby sleeps. In stories it shows something very young and fragile.

### examples

- My aunt has a newborn baby girl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newborn/#x1)
- The newborn lambs stayed close to their mothers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newborn/#x2)
- A newborn baby sleeps most of the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newborn/#x3)
- Newborns need milk every few hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newborn/#x4)
- The newborn foal stood up on wobbly legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newborn/#x5)
- Wash your hands before you hold a newborn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newborn/#x6)

### note

One word: newborn (sometimes «new-born»). As a noun it is countable: a newborn, newborns. A newborn baby is also called an «infant»; a newborn human is about 50 centimetres long and weighs about 3 to 4 kilograms.

### In the corpora

- [A newborn baby changes a whole house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/0/)
- [A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/6/)
- [A newborn calf stands within about an hour so that it can drink milk and keep up with the herd.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/8/)
- ["Bundle of joy" means a newborn baby.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/10/)
- [Marsupials, such as kangaroos and koalas, carry their tiny newborns in a pouch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/75-mammals-and-their-young/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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