n.
- a very young child or baby.
- Brit. a schoolchild between the ages of five and seven.
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[as modifier]
denoting something in an early stage of development:
the infant universe.
- Law a person who has not attained legal majority.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. enfant, from L. infant- ‘unable to speak’, from in- ‘not’ + fant-, fari ‘speak’.