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- [bey-bee]
- /ˈbeɪ bi/
- /ˈbeɪbi/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [bey-bee]
- /ˈbeɪ bi/
Definitions of baby word
- countable noun baby A baby is a very young child, especially one that cannot yet walk or talk. 3
- countable noun baby A baby animal is a very young animal. 3
- adjective baby Baby vegetables are vegetables picked when they are very small. 3
- countable noun baby Some people use baby as an affectionate way of addressing someone, especially a young woman, or referring to them. 3
- noun baby a newborn or recently born child; infant 3
- noun baby (as modifier) 3
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Origin of baby
First appearance:
before 1350 One of the 20% oldest English words
Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at babe, -y2
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Baby
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
baby popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
baby usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for baby
verb baby
- satisfy — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- cuddle — If you cuddle someone, you put your arms round them and hold them close as a way of showing your affection.
- humor — hacker humour
- pamper — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
- pet — a fit of peevishness, sulking, or bad mood.
adjective baby
- miniature — a representation or image of something on a small or reduced scale.
- diminutive — small; little; tiny: a diminutive building for a model-train layout.
- dwarf — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- little — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- midget — (not in technical use) an extremely small person having normal physical proportions.
noun baby
- darling — You call someone darling if you love them or like them very much.
- honey — a sweet, viscid fluid produced by bees from the nectar collected from flowers, and stored in nests or hives as food.
- sugar — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- babe — Some people use babe as an affectionate way of addressing someone they love.
- sweetheart — either of a pair of lovers in relation to the other.
Antonyms for baby
verb baby
- anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
- disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
- ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
adjective baby
- big — A big person or thing is large in physical size.
- giant — (in folklore) a being with human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
- huge — extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- immense — vast; huge; very great: an immense territory.
- important — of much or great significance or consequence: an important event in world history.
noun baby
- adult — An adult is a mature, fully developed person. An adult has reached the age when they are legally responsible for their actions.
- adolescent — Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.
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