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newborns

newborns is the plural of newborn.

Meaning of newborn

Noun

newborn (plural newborns or newborn)

  1. 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

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Proper noun capitalized: Newborns

Newborns

  1. (plural) plural of Newborn

Questions about newborns

What is newborns the plural of?
Newborns is the plural of newborn.
What part of speech is newborns?
Newborns is a proper noun.

Words near newborns in the dictionary

  1. Newbold-on-Stour
  2. Newbolt
  3. Newboltian
  4. newborn
  5. newborn smell
  6. newborns
  7. Newborough
  8. Newbridge
  9. Newbridge-on-Wye
  10. newbro
  11. newbros

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Adapted from Wiktionary: newborns (page history and authors); Newborns (page history and authors); newborn (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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