newborn
/njuːˈbɔːn
/ /ˈnjuːbɔːn /adjective
(Of a child or animal) recently or just born: a picture of the happy couple and their newborn baby figurative a newborn star...
- They will on some occasions attack small ailing domestic animals, newborn sheep and goats, eating parts of them.
- That may change soon thanks to a newborn calf born healthy to the first cow cloned from a beef carcass.
- He said the operation, known as gastric transposition, is more commonly used on newborn babies born with defects.
Synonyms
just born, newly/recently born
noun
A recently born child or animal: she’s incapable of looking after a newborn...
- Some Inuit newborns are born with high blood pressure that persists into elementary school.
- Yet teenagers need parental guidance and attention just as intensely as do newborns or young children.
- And it can be a problem not just for adults, but for children as young as newborns.
Synonyms
newly born child, new/young/tiny baby, infant, young
technical neonate
literary babe
Rhymes
- hallelujah
- Haller, Albrecht von
- Halley, Edmond
- Halley's comet
- Hall, Gus
- Halliday, Michael
- hallion
- Hall, Lyman
- hallmark
- hallo
- Hall of Fame
- Hall of Famer
- hall of residence
- Hall of Shame
- halloo
- halloumi
- hallow
- Halloween
- Hallowe'en
- Hallowes, Odette
- hall pass
- hall porter
- Hall, Radclyffe
- hallstand
- Hallstatt