premie

1. 1.

   an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation

   Synonymspremature babypreterm babypremature infantpreterm infantpreemie

   Broaderneonate

Other forms of premie

plural

premies·

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 premie

What does premie mean?

premie means "an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation".

How many syllables are in premie?

premie has 2 syllables: pre-mie. The stress falls on "pre".

What is another word for premie?

Close synonyms include premature baby, preterm baby, premature infant, preterm infant, preemie. 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 premie a common word?

premie 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.