infaunt

Noun

infant (plural infants)

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.

   Synonyms:

   baby

2. A minor.
   • Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ...1793, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]: De...
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.
   • Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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