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• baby face
  baby face

  noun

  a face having a bland babyish or childish appearance, especially a plump, small-featured face unmarked by characteristic lines.
• baby-face
  baby-face

  noun

  a smooth round face like a baby's

baby face

American  

noun

1. a face having a bland babyish or childish appearance, especially a plump, small-featured face unmarked by characteristic lines.

2. a person having such a face.

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baby-face British  

noun

1. a smooth round face like a baby's

2. a person with such a face

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Other Word Forms

• baby-faced
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of baby face

First recorded in 1705–15

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Example Sentences

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Maybe time had to work its magic to find a place where the baby face ended and the smolder began; they could not exist as one, though he certainly gave it the college try.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2025

We learn that Babbitt, citizen of Zenith, “a mid-size, middlebrow city in the middle of America,” is not fat but extremely well fed, with a baby face marked by wrinkles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

“He’s got the baby face and the young grin and the cool hairdo, you know he’s young, but he’s very mature beyond his years and he knows what’s going on out there,” Richardson said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

Mr. Kang, who is soft-spoken with a baby face, joined in 2018 after heading international sales at CJ ENM, a Korean entertainment conglomerate.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

He’s got a neatly trimmed brown beard, which I think he hopes makes him look older, but it doesn’t hide his baby face.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

Agen Akhere has a round, baby-face but his small eyes are searing red.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2018

I, meanwhile, have a button nose and chubby cheeks that some have said look like a baby-face.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016

Do you try to disguise your youth or, like Bram, use your baby-face as a marketing tool?

From Inc ● Aug. 16, 2012

“Well, now,” he replied, “if I had a smooth baby-face like yours I would not say as I had, but bein’ a man, you see, I may ventur’ to say that I have.”

From The Young Trawler by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

“I don’t see what every one can see in that little pink-and-white baby-face of hers to rave over so!” cried Gertie, hotly.

From Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love by Laura Jean Libbey

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