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newborn
CIDE DICTIONARY
newborn, a.
Recently born. Shak. [1913 Webster]
newborn, n.
A baby recently born, usually less than one month old; a neonate. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
newborn, adj.
1 (of a child etc.) recently born.
2 spiritually reborn; regenerated.
1 (of a child etc.) recently born.
2 spiritually reborn; regenerated.
THESAURUS
newborn
babe, babish, baby, babyish, bantling, bay, bearing, born, calved, cast, doll-like, dollish, dropped, factory-new, foaled, given birth, giving birth, hatched, in arms, in diapers, in mint condition, in nappies, in swaddling clothes, in the cradle, infant, infantile, infantine, kittenish, like new, mint, nee, neonatal, neonate, new-begotten, new-built, new-fledged, new-grown, new-laid, new-made, new-minted, new-model, new-mown, new-wrought, stillborn, uncirculated, whelpedROGET THESAURUS
newborn
Infant
N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.For further exploring for "newborn" in Webster Dictionary Online