baby

1. 1.

   treat with excessive indulgence

   “grandparents often pamper the children”

   “Let's not mollycoddle our students!”

   Synonymspamperfeatherbedcossetcockercoddlemollycoddlespoilindulge

   Broadertreat

Other forms of baby

plural

babies·

past tense or participle

babied

present participle

babying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about baby

What does baby mean?

baby means "a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in baby?

baby has 2 syllables: ba-by. The stress falls on "ba". In IPA it is /ˈbeɪbi/.

What is another word for baby?

Close synonyms include babe, infant, child, pamper, featherbed. 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 baby a common word?

baby is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with baby?

1 word rhymes with baby. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.