Usually means: Killing of a very young child.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word infanticide:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. infanticide: Merriam-Webster
  2. infanticide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. infanticide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. infanticide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. infanticide: Vocabulary.com
  6. Infanticide, infanticide: Wordnik
  7. infanticide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. infanticide: Wiktionary
  9. infanticide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. infanticide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. infanticide: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. infanticide: Dictionary.com
  13. Infanticide (zoology), Infanticide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Infanticide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. infanticide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. infanticide: Rhymezone
  17. Infanticide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. infanticide: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. infanticide: FreeDictionary.org
  20. infanticide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. infanticide: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. infanticide: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. infanticide: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Infanticide (humans), Infanticide: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Infanticide (humans), Infanticide: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. infanticide: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  5. Infanticide (humans), infanticide: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Infanticide: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. infanticide: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See infanticidal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The murder of an infant.
noun:  The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
noun:  (law, Canada) The criminal offence of killing of a newborn, committed by its mother while psychologically disturbed by the effects of childbirth or lactation, not regarded as murder.
noun:  The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.
noun:  (zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.

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