Infant vs Underage - What's the difference?
infant | underage |
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
below the normal or legal age for some activity, such as drinking or having sex
not yet a legal adult; still a minor.
As nouns the difference between infant and underage
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 underage is a deficit or shortfall in funds, inventory, or capacity.As a verb infant
is (obsolete) to bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.As an adjective underage is
below the normal or legal age for some activity, such as drinking or having sex.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.
