abandoned infant

1. 1.

   a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown

   Synonymsfoundling

   Broaderbaby

Questions about abandoned infant

What does abandoned infant mean?

abandoned infant means "a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown".

What is another word for abandoned infant?

Close synonyms include foundling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abandoned infant a common word?

abandoned infant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.