infant
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Is infant a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (law) A minor.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, ..."
2. (countable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school.CommonwealthIrelandUKcountable
3. (obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.Examples: "Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...]."obsolete
adj (English)
1. (not comparable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Of or pertaining to the earlier half of primary school education.Examples: "Primary schooling in Ireland comprises two Infant years, which are equivalent to pre-school in other countries , and six grades or classes."; "Clearly, from the attention given to it, HMI believed that history should be part of the infant curriculum."CommonwealthIrelandUKnot-comparable
2. (figurative, of a river) small, being near its source.Examples: "Leaving Nantyglo, a small station at an altitude of 1,030 ft. with the platform on the eastern side, the train runs northwards over former G.W.R. metals, with the infant River Ebbw, a little more than a yard wide, on the west."figurativelynot-comparable
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.Examples: "This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is […] infanted out of the same fears."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary