infant
US: /ˈɪnfənt/
UK: /ˈɪnfənt/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
infant /'infənt/- danh từ
- đứa bé còn ãm ngửa, đứa bé (dưới 7 tuổi)
- (pháp lý) người vị thành niên
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) (nghĩa bóng) người mới vào nghề, lính mới
- tính từ
- còn thơ ấu, ở tuổi còn thơ
- còn trứng nước
- (pháp lý) vị thành niên
Advanced English dictionary
noun, adjective+ noun
1 (formal or technical) a baby or very young child: a nursery for infants under two + their infant son + She was seriously ill as an infant. + the infant mortality rate + Mozart was an infant prodigy (= a child with unusual ability).
Help Note: In AmE infant is only used for a baby, especially a very young one.
2 (in British and Australian education) a child at school between the ages of four and seven: an infant school + infant teachers + I've known her since we were in the infants (= at infant school).
+ adjective [only before noun]
1 designed to be used by infants: infant formula (= milk for babies)
2 new and not yet developed: infant industries
Collocation
ADJ.
young
He is studying hearing in very young infants.
| newborn | unborn | stillborn | pre-term, premature
jaundice in premature infants
| full-term | healthy, normal | low birthweight | human
a book on intellectual development in the human infant
| female, male | screaming, sleeping
Marjorie looked down at the sleeping infant in her arms.
INFANT + NOUN
death, mortality
countries with high infant mortality
| child, daughter, son
PHRASES
sudden infant death syndrome
Concise dictionary
infants+a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
