Infants
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Infants is a noun meaning plural of infant.
Meaning
plural of infant.
More Meanings
- (UK, Australia) The section of a primary school for the education of younger children, typically the classes of reception or kindergarten and years (grades) one and two.
Example Sentences
Near-synonym: infant school
It was around the time I moved from infants to juniors, which was based in a different building, so it felt like going to big school.
Although of course we did harder work in the juniors than we did in infants, there were still times when we relaxed and just enjoyed ourselves.
George had Josh's form tutor for science, and she talked down to them, like they were still in infants, whereas Mr. Barton treated them like adults.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include baby, infantile, babe, young, immature, babes.
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