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Plural of infant

regular plural

The plural of infant is infants.

Forms of infant

Singularinfant /ˈɪn.fənt/
Pluralinfants
Countablecountable

Infants in a sentence

  • Perinatal HIV infection of infants is a problem in sub-Saharan Africa.From the entry perinatal
  • Only after reaching three weeks of age are the infants considered adoptable.From the entry adoptable
  • Premature infants often have a very low birthweight.From the entry birthweight
  • Infants generally subsist on a lactaceous diet.From the entry lactaceous
  • The speech of infants often contains partwords.From the entry partword

Meaning of infant

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A minor.
  3. noun A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school.

Full definition of infant

Questions about the plural of infant

What is the plural of infant?
The plural of infant is infants.
Is infant countable?
Infant is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: infant (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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