newborn
newborn adjective: recently born.
Adjective
newborn
Noun
newborn (plural newborns or newborn)
- A recently born baby.
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel on Friday rolled back a decadeslong recommendation that all newborns get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.2025 December 5, Aria Bendix and Erika Edwards, “CDC advisory panel rolls back universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation”, in NBC News
- Synonyms:
- neonate
Proper noun capitalized: Newborn
Newborn (plural Newborns)
- A surname.
newborn meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
newborn in Hindi
- recently born
- नवजात navjāt
- recently born baby
- नवजात navjāt
newborn in Tamil
- புதிதாகப் பிறந்த, குழந்தை, மகவு
newborn in Urdu
- recently born
- نو زائیدہ nau-zâida, نو مولود nau-mauluud
newborn in Bengali
- নবজাতক, সদ্যোজাত
More languagesFewer languages
- newborn in Malayalam
- നവജാത, പുതുതായി ജനിച്ച, ഇപ്പോൾജനിച്ച, ഇപ്പോൾ പെറ്റിട്ട
- newborn in Kannada
- ನವಜಾತ ಶಿಶು, ಈಗ ತಾನೇ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ ಮಗು
- newborn in Tagalog
- bagong-panganak
- newborn in Arabic
- مَوْلُود حَدِيث mawlūd ḥadīṯ, مَوْلُودَة حَدِيثة
- newborn in Persian
- نوزاد nowzâd
- newborn in Vietnamese
- mới sinh, trẻ sơ sinh
Examples of newborn in a sentence
- The prince's newborn baby is fifth in line to the throne.
- My wife is on a two year maternity leave while she takes care of her newborn baby.
- Newborn puppies should not be separated from their mother and littermates.
Synonyms of newborn
Forms of newborn
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | new-born |
| Noun | |
| plural | newborns |
| plural | newborn |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Newborns |
Origin of newborn
From new + born.
Words formed from newborn
Questions about newborn
- What does newborn mean?
- Newborn means recently born.
- What is newborn in Hindi?
- Newborn in Hindi is नवजात (navjāt). See Newborn meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is newborn?
- Newborn can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
Words near newborn in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: newborn (page history and authors); Newborn (page history and authors); newborn (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); newborn (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); newborn (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); newborn (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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