baby
baby is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A small image of an infant; a doll. Babies in the eyes, the minute reflection which one sees of one's self in the eyes of another. She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes. Heywood.
- 2.Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans. "Baby figure" Shak.
- 3.To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle. Young.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- analytical
- arroba
- avoirdupois
- baccate
- balance
- ballast
- beam
- burden
- burdensome
- burthen
- carat
- centigram
- counterpoise
- cumber
- cumbersome
- cumbrous
- curd
- dough
- drachma
- food
- grain
- gram
- gravitate
- gravitation
- gravity
- grume
- grumous
- heaviness
- heavy
- hundredweight
- incumbent
- jam
- kilogram
- lead
- load
- long
- lump
- lumpish
- lumpy
- mass
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is baby.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
- Canonical URL: https://worddirectanswers.com/word/baby
- Steward: Jason Burns