Meaning

4 senses
  1. A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.

    Säugling, Wickelkind, Kind

    младе́нецmladénec, ребёнокrebjónok, дитя́ditjá

    немовля́nemovljá, немовля́ткоnemovljátko, малю́кmaljúk

  2. A minor.

    Minderjähriger, Minderjährige

  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable)A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school.

  4. (obsolete)A noble or aristocratic youth.

More definitions
  • a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk

Examples

73 sentences
  1. An infant isn't capable of speaking, so it just screams until it gets what it wants.

    Немовля не здатне розмовляти, ось воно й кричить, доки не отримає те, чого хоче.

    deEin Säugling kann nicht sprechen, also schreit er so lange, bis er das bekommt, was er will.

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  2. We need more medical care for infants.

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  3. They attributed the low death rate of infants to the progress of medicine.

    deSie führten die niedrige Kindersterblichkeitsrate auf den Fortschritt in der Medizin zurück.

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  4. An infant is not capable of speaking, so it just screams until it gets what it wants.

    Немовля не здатне розмовляти, ось воно й кричить, доки не отримає те, чого хоче.

    deEin Säugling kann nicht sprechen, also schreit er so lange, bis er das bekommt, was er will.

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  5. She was adopted as an infant.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
very young human being:
Русский
By meaning 1
very young human being:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
very young human being:
legal minor:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English infaunt, borrowed from Latin īnfantem, accusative masculine

Inherited from Middle English infaunt, borrowed from Latin īnfantem, accusative masculine singular of īnfāns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from īn- (“not”) + fāns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source. Doublet of infante.

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