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# infant

noun (an infant, infants); adjective (infant)

«infant» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An infant is a baby or a very young child, especially one who cannot yet walk or talk well. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#m1)
2. (UK) Infants are the youngest children in primary school, about ages four to seven; an infant school is for them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#m2)
3. Infant can describe something new that has just begun: an infant company. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#m3)

### In the lessons

In health and safety: car seats for infants, never shake an infant. In UK schools: infant school, the infants. In science: the stages of life — infant, child, teenager, adult. Phrases: infant school, newborn infant, infant formula.

### Examples

- The infant slept in her cot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x1)
- Infants need milk many times a day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x2)
- My little brother is in the infants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x3)
- Always strap an infant into a car seat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x4)
- Infant school comes before junior school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x5)
- The infant smiled for the first time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x6)
- The infant was away with a nurse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/#x7)

### Note

Countable: an infant (vowel sound). Noun: infancy (the time of being a baby). Formal or medical word; in everyday speech say "baby". Infant mortality is a formal phrase for babies who die.

## In Jewish tradition

It means a small child or baby, as in the commands of war against Amalek and prophecies of punishment.

**Interpretation.** Such verses are hard, and the rabbis discuss them closely. Job's wish shows how bitter his grief is.

### Examples

- Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light. (Writings JOB.3.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/infant/#x1)
- Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.' (Prophets 1SA.15.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/infant/#x2)
- Samaria shall bear her guilt, for she hath rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. (Prophets HOS.14.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/infant/#x3)

### Note

Countable: an infant (vowel sound). Noun: infancy (the time of being a baby). Formal or medical word; in everyday speech say "baby". Infant mortality is a formal phrase for babies who die.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «infant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infant/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«infant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/infant.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «infant» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/infant/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«infant» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/infant.html) on Mova free.