infant
nomadjectifverbecourant dans les dialogues
- //ˈɪn.fənt//
A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
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A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
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A minor.
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, ...
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A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school.
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obsolèteA noble or aristocratic youth.
Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].
Étymologie
Inherited from Middle English infaunt, borrowed from Latin īnfantem, accusative masculine singular of īnfāns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from īn- (“not”) + fāns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source. Doublet of infante.
adjectif
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Of or pertaining to the earlier half of primary school education.
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.
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figurésmall, being near its source.
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.
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obsolèteTo bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is […] infanted out of the same fears.
Formes
- pluriel
- infants
- passé
- infanted
- participe passé
- infanted
- participe présent
- infanting
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- infants
infant · A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
infantry · Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry…infect · To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a…infected · Having an infection.