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infants

infants noun: the section of a primary school for the education of younger children, typically the classes of reception or kindergarten and years (grades) one and two. Also the plural of infant.

Noun

infants

  1. (Australia, UK) The section of a primary school for the education of younger children, typically the classes of reception or kindergarten and years (grades) one and two.
    • Near-synonym: infant school
    • It was around the time I moved from infants to juniors, which was based in a different building, so it felt like going to big school.2011 January 21, Craig Revel Horwood, All Balls and Glitter: My Life, Michael O'Mara Books, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    Key Stage 1, infant school

Also used as

infants is also the plural of infant.

infants meaning in Marathi, Telugu and Gujarati

infants in Marathi

अर्भके

infants in Telugu

పసిపిల్లలు

infants in Gujarati

શિશુઓ

Examples of infants in a sentence

  • Although of course we did harder work in the juniors than we did in infants, there were still times when we relaxed and just enjoyed ourselves.2013 February 1, Simon Webb, The Best Days of Our Lives: School Life in Post-War Britain, The History Press, →ISBN:
  • George had Josh's form tutor for science, and she talked down to them, like they were still in infants, whereas Mr.2023 February 7, Debbie McGowan, Chain of Secrets, Beaten Track Publishing, →ISBN:

Synonyms of infants

Words formed from infants

Phrases with infants

Questions about infants

What does infants mean?
Infants means the section of a primary school for the education of younger children, typically the classes of reception or kindergarten and years (grades) one and two.
What is infants in Marathi?
Infants in Marathi is अर्भके. See Infants meaning in Marathi.
How do you use infants in a sentence?
Although of course we did harder work in the juniors than we did in infants, there were still times when we relaxed and just enjoyed ourselves.
What part of speech is infants?
Infants is a noun.

Words near infants in the dictionary

  1. infantrypeople
  2. infantryperson
  3. infantrypersons
  4. infantrywoman
  5. infantrywomen
  6. infants
  7. infantspace
  8. infantswear
  9. infantwear
  10. infarce
  11. infarced

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Adapted from Wiktionary: infants (page history and authors); infants (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); infants (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); infants (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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