newborn
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- noun
- /ˈnuːbɔrn/
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recién nacido
- The pediatrician said that a newborn should be checked for any health issues within the first week after birth.
- mothers of newborns
- newborn at the breast
- survival of the newborn
I'm here with a newborn and I'm at the table.
- I'm here with a newborn and I'm at the table.
- So now we've got a newborn sleeping in our room every night.
- Majority of newborns actually die in the first week.
- But like all three of us have newborns and welcome to the club, gentlemen.
- The kid is was like a newborn, basically.
- And you kind of like wish that you could relive having a newborn for the first time.
Examples
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So now we've got a newborn sleeping in our room every night.
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A mother and her newborn in a new lactation room in Martha Van Rensselaer.
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And so much of what helps the the newborn actually also helps the mother.
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Last year was like crazy having a newborn and and working as much as we actually did.
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And we all know how expensive newborn intensive care is.
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I'm here with a newborn and I'm at the table.
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I feel like I need to read up again about what newborns require.
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In his arms was his three-week old newborn baby, Tim.
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They had travelled from the far reaches of the kingdom to see the newborn baby.
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Sophisticated medical devices are used to monitor a newborn in the maternity ward of a rural hospital in Kyrgyzstan.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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A very young child or animal that cannot walk and cannot talk yet
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A very young child usually under one year who is not yet walking or talking
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A baby less than four weeks old, often cared for in a hospital
A baby who shows signs of life after birth, like breathing or a heartbeat
A baby who is being fed by its mother or a person who cares for it
A baby looked after and fed at the breast by a caregiver
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
High levels of a yellow blood substance in newborn babies that make their skin and eyes yellow
- Specialized
A yellow colour on a newborn baby's skin that usually goes away on its own
- Specialized
A serious lung problem in newborn babies, often premature, when their lungs cannot open properly and they have trouble breathing
- Specialized
Newborn babies breathe quickly and then stop for short times
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A common harmless yellowing of a baby's skin and eyes from an immature liver that goes away
How Young
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Newborn comes from the simple parts new ('not old') and born ('to be born'), so it literally means a baby who has just been born.