baby vs cherub

baby

noun
  • A person who is immature, infantile or feeble. 

  • Unborn young; a fetus. 

  • A pet project or responsibility. 

  • An affectionate term for anything. 

  • The lastborn of a family; the youngest sibling, irrespective of age. 

  • A very young human, particularly from conception or birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered. 

  • A form of address to a person considered to be attractive. 

  • A concept or creation endeared by its creator. 

  • One who is new to an identity or community. 

  • A term of endearment used to refer to or address one's girlfriend, boyfriend or spouse. 

  • A person's romantic partner. 

  • Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chicks for the babies of birds. See Category:Baby animals for more. 

  • A person who is new to or inexperienced in something. 

verb
  • To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over. 

  • To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant. 

adj
  • Like or pertaining to a baby, in size or youth; small, young. 

  • Picked when small and immature (as in baby corn, baby potatoes). 

  • Newest (overall, or in some group or state), most inexperienced. 

cherub

noun
  • A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent. 

  • A winged creature attending God, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim; similar to a lamassu in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts. 

  • An artistic depiction of such a being, typically in the form of a winged child or a child's head with wings but no body. 

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