infant🔊

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. +

(law) A minor.

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

(obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.

(chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Of or pertaining to the earlier half of primary school education.

(figurative, of a river) Small, being near its source.

(obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.