{
    "term": "infant",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a baby or very young child",
            "labels": "(formal or specialist)North American English",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a nursery for infants under two"
                },
                {
                    "text": "their infant son"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was seriously ill as an infant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mozart was an **infant prodigy** *(= a young child with unusual ability)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Marjorie looked down at the sleeping infant in her arms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a book on intellectual development in the human infant"
                },
                {
                    "text": "countries with high infant mortality"
                },
                {
                    "text": "jaundice in premature infants"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We studied newborn infants up to two months old."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["young", "month-old", "two-month-old"],
                "verb + infant": ["breastfeed", "feed", "nurse"],
                "infant + noun": ["death", "mortality", "child"],
                "phrases": ["sudden infant death syndrome"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a child at school between the ages of four and seven",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The majority of infant teachers are women."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've known her since we were in the infants *(= at  school)*."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪnfənt/",
                "audio": "in/infant/infant__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪnfənt/",
                "audio": "in/infant/infant__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French enfant, from Latin infant- ‘unable to speak’, from in- ‘not’ + fant- ‘speaking’ (from the verb fari)."
}