Infant vs Brother - What's the difference?
infant | brother |
A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
(legal) A minor.
(obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
(obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
* Milton
Son of the same parents as another person.
* , chapter=10
, title= A male having at least one parent in common with another (see half-brother, stepbrother).
A male fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
* The Bible, Deuteronomy 23:19 (NKJV)
(African American Vernacular English) A black male.
* 2013 , Gwyneth Bolton, Ready for Love
Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.
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To treat as a brother.
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
* Seest thou not we are overreached, and that our proposed mode of communicating with our friends without has been disconcerted by this same motley gentleman thou art so fond to brother ?
As nouns the difference between infant and brother
is that infant is a very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention while brother is title of respect for an adult male member of a religious or fraternal order.As a verb infant
is (obsolete) to bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.infant
English
(wikipedia infant)Alternative forms
* infaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].
See also
* sudden infant death syndrome * newborn * neonateVerb
(en verb)- This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is infanted out of the same fears.
brother
English
Alternative forms
* brotha (Jamaican English)Noun
(en-noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers .}}
- You shall not charge interest to your brother —interest on money or'' food ''or anything that is lent out at interest.
- But damn if they knew when to just leave a brother alone and let him sulk in silence.
- And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers .