infant:
(plural: ‘infants‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘i’ rhymes with the letter ‘i’ in “ink”)
an infant at play
(according to law) a person under the age of 18; a minor;a very small child; a baby (from birth to one year)
(in British usage) a school-going child (especially under the age of seven);
any adult at the beginning stage of any activity,
an infant (a girl of 5)
Paediatricians keep assuring that every infant is bound to throw up at least once a day, but parents, especially first timers, find it hard to see their infant hiccup and throw up regularly.
Travelling with grown-up children is a head-ache but travelling with infants is not only tedious but also risky as infants demand constant attention and sometimes fall sick or seem to be sick at god-forsaken places where no medical or other facilities are found.
There is a great hue and cry over vaccinations to the infants as parents refuse to get their babies vaccinated because of the rumours that some of the newborn infants have become crippled after having some types of vaccine, but the medical personnel insist that they should have their infants vaccinated compulsorily and periodically!
Even after receiving several national and three international awards, the modest fifty-year old artist said he was still an infant in art field!
