Infant

Definitions

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.
2. A minor.
3. A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable
4. A noble or aristocratic youth.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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, ...”

“Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].”

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