infant

Roget-categorie 129

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time

#129. Infant

zelfstandig naamwoord

infant, babe, baby, babe in arms — nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling — papoose, bambino — kid — vagitus.
child, bairn [Scot.], little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin — bantling, bratling^† — elf.
youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker^†, callant^†, whipster^†, whippersnapper, whiffet [U.S.], schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master.
scion — sap, seedling — tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow — codlin, codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten — lamb, lambkin^† — aurelia^†, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha^†, orphan, pupa, staddle^†.
girl — lass, lassie — wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle — maid, maiden — virgin — hoyden.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

infantine^†, infantile — puerile — boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish — baby — newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow.
in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings — at the breast — in one's teens.

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