An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
INFANT
baby, babe, infant
(noun) a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; “the baby began to cry again”; “she held the baby in her arms”; “it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
infant (plural infants)
A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
• Synonym: baby
(legal) A minor.
(obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
Verb
infant (third-person singular simple present infants, present participle infanting, simple past and past participle infanted)
(obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
Anagrams
• Fintan
Source: Wiktionary
In"fant, n. Etym: [L. infans; pref. in- not +fari to speak: cf. F. enfant, whence OE. enfaunt. See Fame, and cf. Infante, Infanta.]
1. A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age. And tender cries of infants pierce the ear. C. Pitt.
2. (Law)
Definition: A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor.
Note: An infant under seven years of age is not penally responsible; between seven and fourteen years of age, he may be convicted of a malicious offense if malice be proved. He becomes of age on the day preceding his twenty-first birthday, previous to which time an infant has no capacity to contract.
3. Same as Infante. [Obs.] Spenser.
In"fant, a.
1. Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength.
2. Intended for young children; as, an infant school.
In"fant, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. enfanter.]
Definition: To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general. [Obs.] This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is . . . infanted out of the same fears. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
25 December 2024
UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
Coffee Trivia
