Baby definition
Baby is a noun meaning "a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk." It has 8 meanings, as a noun and a verb, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- noun, verb
- Syllables
- 2
- Letters
- 4
- How common
- Everyday word
Baby as a noun
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
"the baby began to cry again"
Same sense: babe, infant
the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young)
"the baby of the family"
an immature childish person
"stop being a baby!"
Same sense: child
an unborn child; a human fetus
"I felt healthy and very feminine carrying the baby"
a very young mammal
"baby rabbits"
a project of personal concern to someone
"this project is his baby"
a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
Same sense: love, dear, honey, beloved, darling, sweetheart, sweetie, dearest
Baby as a verb
treat with excessive indulgence
Same sense: spoil, indulge, cocker, pamper, coddle, featherbed, mollycoddle, cosset
Synonyms and antonyms
- babe
- infant
- child definition
- love definition
- dear
- honey
- beloved
- darling
- sweetheart
- sweetie
- dearest
- spoil
- indulge
- cocker
- pamper
- coddle
- featherbed
- mollycoddle
- cosset
How to say baby
Baby has 2 syllables and rhymes with maybe. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with baby
- maybe
- crybaby
- grandbaby
BABY in word games
- Scrabble
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Anagrams
- 0
Is BABY a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check BABY in the word checker, or unscramble BABY to see the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.