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(n)
A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
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(adj)
Childish; immature.
(slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman. [from 20th c.]
In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
Childish in behavior; juvenile.
The state of being an infant.
The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
Suitable for or expected of a child.
(broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
A male child.
Of or pertaining to a mother; having the characteristics of a mother; motherly.
A child of someone's child.
(uncountable) The act, practice, or occupation of supervising and taking care of young children.
Small in size.
(countable) A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
The state or quality of being mortal.
A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).
Of, like, or suitable for a child.
Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.
(informal, uncountable, sometimes slightly vulgar) Mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
Emerging; just coming into existence.
In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.
A recently born baby.
A newborn infant; recently born baby.
Of or pertaining to the period of time immediately following birth, or to the newborn.
Of or pertaining to the time around birth.
The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
(Commonwealth) Standard spelling of pediatric.
(American spelling) Of or pertaining to pediatrics, the branch of medicine dealing with the care and treatment of children and adolescents.
(pathology) A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours, especially of a disease or medical or psychological condition.
The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.
(uncountable) The act or process of feeding a baby or young child milk from a lactating breast.
Alternative spelling of preschool. [Of or relating to the years of early childhood before attendance at primary school.]
A nursery school.
(Canada, US, Australia, India) An educational institution for young children, usually between ages 4 and 6; nursery school.
Relating to, or existing as gas (matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma).
(informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
(gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of two rings suspended from a bar.
A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
Beginning to develop.
A surname.
(N)
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producing or secreting milk
Alternative form of high school. [(education) An institution which provides all or part of secondary education.]
A small child.
A young child who has started walking but not fully mastered it, typically between one and three years old.
A young child or animal being nursed.
Alternative form of rugrat. [(slang, humorous or derogatory, chiefly in the plural) A toddler, a young child.]
(Scotland, and parts of Northern England) A child or baby.
In later texts changed to a winged baby; in artistic depictions sometimes a baby's head with wings but no body.
A child or baby, especially a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes. [from 18th c.]
(UK) A backpack for carrying a baby, or specifically a cradleboard.
A young child.
An infant that is still being breastfed (being suckled) by its mother.
(slang) A small child.
(archaic, UK dialectal) An infant or young child.
A young person, animal, or plant; chit.
(idiomatic) One or more relatively small and insignificant individuals or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
(especially of an animal) Not yet weaned; still being suckled.
A child who is educated at preschool.
(US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
(embryology) Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus.
Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting anencephaly.
A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.
The period, usually six months, preceding a child's birth.
(formerly the Carlton Ballroom) a club in the Erdington district of Birmingham, England, during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
(colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
One’s female offspring.
Alternative spelling of wet nurse. [A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.]
Alternative spelling of bassinet. [A newborn baby's bed, traditionally woven with reeds or straw; a (wicker) cradle.]
born alive
The act of one who squalls; a crying or wailing.
The state or period of infancy.
(informal) A baby that has been born prematurely.
(uncountable) The final stage of pregnancy; confinement.
(Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of fetus. [An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.]
A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).