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baby

noun

1 a newborn baby:

infant, newborn, child, tot, little one;

Scottish, & Northern English bairn;

informal sprog, bundle of joy, tiny;

literary babe, babe in arms;

technical neonate.

2 the baby of the family:

youngest, junior member;

smallest, littlest.

3 informal baby, please don't cry:

darling, sweetheart, dearest, dear;

in Spanish-speaking regions querida;

informal honey, sweetie, sugar, honey pie, sweetie pie, cutie pie, babe, bae;

archaic sweeting.

adjective

baby carrots:

miniature, mini, little, small, small-scale, scaled-down, toy, pocket, midget, dwarf, fun-size;

Scottish wee;

North American vest-pocket;

informal teeny, teeny-weeny, teensy, teensy-weensy, weeny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, eensy, eensy-weensy, pint-sized, bite-sized;

British, informal titchy, tiddly;

North American, informal little-bitty.

▷antonyms large.

verb

her aunt babied her:

pamper, mollycoddle, spoil, cosset, coddle, indulge, overindulge, pet, wait on someone hand and foot, overparent, nanny;

pander to;

British wrap in cotton wool, feather-bed;

archaic cocker.

word links	baby
infantile relating to babies

baby Oxford Dictionary of English