'Baby' definitions:
Definition of 'baby'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: baby, babe, infant]
noun
The youngest member of a group (not necessarily young); "the baby of the family"; "the baby of the Supreme Court"
noun
An immature childish person; "he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived"; "stop being a baby!" [syn: child, baby]
noun
An unborn child; a human fetus; "I felt healthy and very feminine carrying the baby"; "it was great to feel my baby moving about inside"
noun
noun
A very young mammal; "baby rabbits"
noun
A project of personal concern to someone; "this project is his baby"
verb
Treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
Definition of 'Baby'
From: GCIDE
- Baby \Ba"by\ (b[=a]"b[y^]), n.; pl. Babies (-b[i^]z). [Dim. of babe.] An infant or young child of either sex; a babe. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A small image of an infant; a doll. [1913 Webster]
- Babies in the eyes, the minute reflection which one sees of one's self in the eyes of another. [1913 Webster]
- She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes. --Heywood. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Baby'
From: GCIDE
- Baby \Ba"by\, a. Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans. "Baby figure" --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Baby'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'baby'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adolescent,
- angel,
- apprentice,
- babe,
- babish,
- baby bunting,
- baby-doll,
- baby-sized,
- babyish,
- bambino,
- bantam,
- bantling,
- banty,
- beginner,
- big baby,
- broad,
- buttercup,
- catechumen,
- cater to,
- cherub,
- chick,
- chickabiddy,
- chicken,
- chicken liver,
- child,
- cocker,
- coddle,
- colleen,
- compact,
- cosset,
- cotton,
- coward,
- crybaby,
- cutie,
- dame,
- damoiselle,
- damsel,
- darling,
- dear,
- deary,
- deb,
- debutant,
- demoiselle,
- diminutive,
- doll,
- doll-like,
- dollish,
- doormat,
- dote,
- dry-nurse,
- duck,
- duckling,
- dull tool,
- duodecimo,
- Elzevir,
- entrant,
- favor,
- filly,
- flame,
- fledgling,
- fraid-cat,
- fraidy-cat,
- frail,
- freshman,
- funk,
- funker,
- gal,
- girl,
- girlie,
- gratify,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- gutless wonder,
- handy,
- heifer,
- hon,
- honey,
- honey bunch,
- honey child,
- hopeful,
- hoyden,
- humor,
- in arms,
- in diapers,
- in nappies,
- in swaddling clothes,
- in the cradle,
- inamorata,
- incubator baby,
- indulge,
- infant,
- infantile,
- infantine,
- invertebrate,
- jellyfish,
- jeune fille,
- jill,
- junior,
- junior miss,
- juvenal,
- juvenile,
- kittenish,
- ladylove,
- lamb,
- lambkin,
- lass,
- lassie,
- learner,
- lightweight,
- lily liver,
- little angel,
- little darling,
- little missy,
- little one,
- love,
- lover,
- mademoiselle,
- maid,
- maiden,
- meek soul,
- mewling infant,
- microcosm,
- milksop,
- Milquetoast,
- mini,
- miniature,
- miniaturized,
- minikin,
- minimal,
- minny,
- minor,
- minuscule,
- miss,
- missy,
- mollycoddle,
- mouse,
- namby-pamby,
- nebbish,
- neonatal,
- neonate,
- neophyte,
- nestling,
- newborn,
- newcomer,
- nonentity,
- novice,
- novitiate,
- nursling,
- nymphet,
- pamper,
- pansy,
- pantywaist,
- papoose,
- pet,
- petkins,
- piece,
- please,
- pocket,
- pocket-sized,
- pony,
- precious,
- precious heart,
- preemie,
- premature baby,
- preschooler,
- probationer,
- pubescent,
- puling infant,
- puppet,
- pushover,
- raw recruit,
- recruit,
- romp,
- rookie,
- sad sack,
- sapling,
- satisfy,
- scaredy-cat,
- schoolgirl,
- schoolmaid,
- schoolmiss,
- sissy,
- skirt,
- slip,
- small-scale,
- snookums,
- softling,
- softy,
- sop,
- spoil,
- sprig,
- steady,
- stripling,
- subdeb,
- subdebutante,
- subminiature,
- subteen,
- subteener,
- suckling,
- sugar,
- sweet,
- sweetheart,
- sweetie,
- sweetkins,
- sweets,
- teenager,
- teener,
- teenybopper,
- tenderfoot,
- toddler,
- tomato,
- tomboy,
- tot,
- toy,
- trainee,
- truelove,
- twelvemo,
- tyro,
- vest-pocket,
- virgin,
- weak sister,
- weakling,
- weanling,
- wench,
- wet-nurse,
- white feather,
- white liver,
- yearling,
- young creature,
- young hopeful,
- young person,
- young thing,
- younger,
- youngest,
- youngling,
- youngster,
- youth
Words containing 'Baby'
- Babied,
- Babies,
- Babying,
- have a baby,
- Babies in the eyes,
- Baby farm,
- Baby farmer,
- Baby farming,
- Baby jumper,
- Kern baby,
- babies' slippers,
- babies'-breath,
- baby bed,
- baby bird,
- baby boom,
- baby boomer,
- baby buggy,
- baby buster,
- baby carriage,
- baby doc,
- baby doctor,
- baby grand,
- baby minder,
- baby oil,
- baby powder,
- baby rose,
- baby shoe,
- baby sit,
- baby sitting,
- baby talk,
- baby tears,
- baby tooth,
- baby's bed,
- baby's breath,
- baby's dummy,
- baby's room,
- baby's tears,
- blue baby,
- bush baby,
- newborn baby,
- premature baby,
- preterm baby,
- war baby,
- baby grand piano,
- baby-faced,
- baby-like,
- baby-sit,
- baby-sitter,
- baby-walker,
- baby-wise,
- false baby's breath,
- baby blue-eyes,
- baby-blue-eyes,
- baby-boom generation,
- cry-baby tree,
- test-tube baby,
- low-birth-weight baby