newborn
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Definition
Adjective:
- Recently born: Describes a baby or animal that has been born very recently.
- Recently come into existence: Describes something that has just been created or has appeared.
Noun:
- A newborn infant: A baby, specifically from the time of birth to approximately four weeks of age.
Usage Examples
Adjective:
- The mother held her newborn baby for the first time.
- The zoo announced the arrival of a newborn giraffe.
- The country, with its newborn democracy, faced many challenges.
Noun:
- The hospital has a special unit for newborns.
- Newborns sleep for most of the day and night.
Advanced Usage
- "newborn period": The first 28 days of a baby's life, a critical phase for health and development.
- Screening tests are performed during the newborn period.
- "newborn screening": A public health program that tests infants shortly after birth for certain harmful or potentially fatal disorders.
- Newborn screening can detect conditions that are treatable if found early.
Variants and Related Words
- Neonate (n): A technical/medical term for a newborn infant, especially within the first four weeks.
- The neonate was placed in an incubator.
- Newly (adv): Recently. (This is the adverbial form related to the "recent" aspect of ).
- A newly independent nation.
Synonyms
- Adjective: neonatal, nascent, fledgling, recent.
- Noun: neonate, baby, infant.
Related Phrases
- Newborn care: The attention and medical support given to a baby immediately after birth and in the following weeks.
- Proper newborn care includes feeding, keeping the baby warm, and hygiene.
- Newborn hearing screening: A test to check a newborn baby's hearing.
- All newborn hearing screenings are done before the baby leaves the hospital.
Adjective
- having just or recently arisen or come into existence
- new nations
- with newborn fears
- recently born
- a newborn infant
Noun
- a baby from birth to four weeks