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say it: BAY-bee
baby is a noun and verb meaning "a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk". It carries 7 recorded senses.
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
“the baby began to cry again”
“she held the baby in her arms”
“it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different”
the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young)
“the baby of the family”
“the baby of the Supreme Court”
an unborn child; a human fetus
“I felt healthy and very feminine carrying the baby”
“it was great to feel my baby moving about inside”
treat with excessive indulgence
“grandparents often pamper the children”
“Let's not mollycoddle our students!”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for baby come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.