newborn

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From new + born.

Newborn, they must be given suck to, rocked in a cradle, and dandled. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
Women and their newborns are encouraged to stay here at the clinic for at least a week. — Life Blood, Thomas Hoover
Our newborn and still timid press has done good service to the public already, for without it we should never have heard of the horrors of unbridled violence and moral degradation which are continually made known by the press, not merely to those who attend the new jury courts established in the present reign, but to every one. — The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

neonate, newborn infant, newborn baby

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