a child in the first period of life
Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through — Margaret Drabble
Brit a child at school between the ages of five and seven or eight
somebody who is legally a minor
(used before a noun) in an early stage of development
infant technology
[Middle English enfaunt via French from Latin infant-, infans incapable of speech, young, from in-1 + fant-, fans, present part. of fari to speak]