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Word: Infant
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Middle English: from Old French enfant, from Latin infant- ‘unable to speak’, from in- ‘not’ + fant- ‘speaking’ (from the verb fari)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈɪnf(ə)nt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a very young child or baby
Short Definition:very young child
Examples:- healthy infants
- infant mortality
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