A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion. There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being preserved on a floating lotus leaf. Ere babes were invented The girls were contended. Now man is tormented Until to buy babes he has squandered His money. And so I have pondered This thing, and thought may be 'T were better that Baby The First had been eagled or condored. Ro Amil

An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans.

a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; "isn't she too young to have a baby?"

sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women

a very young mammal; "baby rabbits"

the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young); "the baby of the family"; "the baby of the Supreme Court"

a priceless addition to your home, but to ensure that your family is a good candidate for adoption and that your child will have a stable childhood, it's important to get your financial house in order before your new addition arrives

a savior, because a child, every child, represents something new, new creation, a new idea, a new skill, a new perspective, breaking into a world which is worn out with all the old ways and needs a new possibility

a very young person

Normally, this means a very young child aged from birth to perhaps 1 year. The term is also sometimes used (particularly by pro-life advocates) to refer to a zygote, blastocyst, morula, embryo or fetus.

Similar to Babe.

1. Dad, when he gets a cold. 2. Mom's youngest child, even if he's 42.