baby
- noun
- /ˈbeɪbi/
- And there is nothing like feeling your baby move inside you.
- unborn baby
- pregnancy for the baby
- a healthy baby
And she said your baby's heartbeat is very low.
- And she said your baby's heartbeat is very low.
- And I said the baby that my wife lost.
- pro-life people are like, what about the baby that's being killed, right?
- I had a horrible pregnancy and they told me that baby had died and it hadn't.
- And she ended up telling me that the baby that was aborted wasn't mine.
- Well, shout out to that baby who's a millionaire in utero.
- So luckily there is just one perfect baby in there.
- Sending lots of conception baby fertility vibes your way.
- Daddy Trevor got it, baby nine months.
Examples
-
A woman came up to me with her baby, who was suffering from a terrible rash.
Academic text (2015) -
I need to actually put together this because the baby could come any day.
-
And that reason is because we're having a baby, another baby.
-
And the next time we see them, I think we'll have the baby, which is just wild.
-
I cannot have this baby and hold my existing family together.
-
We'll move to Europe, and I'll have my baby in France.
-
Then her father forced her to leave him and give up their baby for adoption.
Academic text (2011) -
That's when my baby is due.
-
I'm pregnant, and the baby is Kenny's.
-
I felt ecstatic when I learned that I was going to have a baby soon.
Synonyms
Idioms
To get rid of something valuable while removing something bad
- Informal
Being the only person who must deal with a problem after others avoid it
- Informal
To have the only responsibility for a hard problem when others avoid it
Compounds
- Offensive
An insulting name for a person who kills or is accused of killing babies
A small cart with four wheels that you push to carry a baby who is lying down or sitting
People in the United States born between 1946 and 1964 when birth rates rose after World War II
- Informal
A baby that doctors make from an egg and sperm outside the mother's body and put in her womb
- South African
A small animal from Africa that is active at night with big eyes and a long tail
- Slang
A person who grows up with parents active in communist or socialist politics
- Offensive
An insulting word for someone with a very small penis or who acts like a child
- Jargon
A habit of preferring the first way you learn and resisting later changes
- Specialized
A small rose bush that grows strongly and makes many small flowers used for hedges and grafting
A small creeping plant with many tiny round leaves used as a houseplant or ground cover
- Offensive
An insulting word for a person who complains a lot and acts like a child
How Developed
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Baby A common idea is that baby comes from early 'baby talk' like baba or ba, sounds small children make when they cannot speak yet. That's why people also call an unborn child a baby — it is the same young life we think of from the start.