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BABE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
Example:
it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("babe" is a kind of...):
child; kid (a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "babe"):
blue baby (an infant born with a bluish color; usually has a defective heart)
cherub (a sweet innocent baby)
abandoned infant; foundling (a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown)
godchild (an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism)
neonate; newborn (a baby from birth to four weeks)
nurseling; nursling; suckling (an infant considered in relation to its nurse)
papoose; pappoose (an American Indian infant)
test-tube baby (a baby conceived by fertilization that occurs outside the mother's body; the woman's ova are removed and mixed with sperm in a culture medium - if fertilization occurs the blastocyte is implanted in the woman's uterus)
war baby (conceived or born during war)
Context examples:
“By St. Thomas of Kent! we are at the beck of our master, but we are not to be ordered by every babe whose mother hath sent him as far as Aquitaine.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But let it be sword, lance, or bolt that strikes me down: for I should think it shame to die from an iron ball from the fire-crake or bombard or any such unsoldierly weapon, which is only fitted to scare babes with its foolish noise and smoke.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
