bantling

noun

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  1. infant
  2. newborn
  3. moppet
  4. youngling
  5. neonate
  6. weanling
  7. nestling
  8. toddler
Noun
  • Looking like the cross between a spermatozoon and a tadpole, this needy, frail little infant is wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes, resting on the dresser and then the drawer of poor Jack Nance’s apartment in an industrial hellscape.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Internet users can't get enough of the love between the infant and her granddad, who takes care of her from Monday to Friday when Rogers is at work.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of infant
Noun
  • As such, Herod’s massacre would have evoked a familiar Old Testament story in which the Egyptian Pharaoh orders all Jewish newborns to be slaughtered in an effort to kill the infant Moses.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The video, which was not ultimately shown to Lively, featured an image of Heath, his wife, and their newborn after a home birth.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of newborn
Noun
  • The Girl with the Needle portrays that girl as a blonde moppet named Erena (Avo Knox Martin) to whom Karoline becomes a surrogate mother.
    Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
  • So sometimes Poppa’s House wants to focus on different generational views on child-rearing, since Junior and Nina have a pair of cute moppets.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of moppet
Noun
  • In its own very different way, Skeleton Crew is also trying to see this territory through new eyes — in this case, four younglings who should probably be in science class and not figuring out how to get a ship into hyperspace.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Along with the announcement, Disney also posted a new trailer teasing how younglings Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), KB (Kyriana Kratter), and Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) get swept up in the adventure of a lifetime with Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law) as their Force-sensitive guide.
    Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of youngling
Noun
  • Despite the underlying cause, the management of a sick neonate follows a consistent approach.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • This means there is a two-month window after birth where neonates are at their most vulnerable.
    Paul Sisson, The Mercury News, 18 Nov. 2024
Definition of neonate
Noun
  • The striped dolphin was a female weanling (newly independent from its mother) that stranded freshly deceased on Hampton Beach.
    Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • Hungry weanlings trailing after their full-figured mothers.
    Joe Drape, New York Times, 4 May 2023
Definition of weanling
Noun
  • Male white-browed sparrow-weaver nestlings of the Kalahari help their parents less than their sisters do.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • But Berg also witnessed a stepdad feeding a widow’s nestling.
    ByVirginia Morell, science.org, 6 May 2024
Definition of nestling
Noun
  • Advice for parents of babies and toddlers Joey Kehoe and his 1-year-old daughter Florence barely escaped the fire that destroyed their condo on Palisades Drive.
    Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Sharon Lyles, executive director of the diaper bank, said babies and toddlers left in dirty diapers can develop urinary tract infections and rashes.
    Michael Cuglietta, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of toddler
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