"baby step" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the small, awkward movements of a young child learning to walk.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "baby steps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "baby step (plural baby steps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Learning a new language is difficult, so we'll learn by taking baby steps.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 8, Jonathan Tannenwald, “CBS is launching a 24/7 soccer channel online”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer",
          "text": "From a news operation standpoint, we’re going to start out with baby steps, but, eventually, this is going to be what you would expect it to be: a 24-hour operating network that covers a sport soup to nuts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small effort made towards the completion of a much larger task."
      ],
      "id": "en-baby_step-en-noun-zZFt2Jq2",
      "links": [
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly in the plural) A small effort made towards the completion of a much larger task."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "baby talk"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "in-plural"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "small effort",
          "word": "vauvanaskel"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "small effort",
          "word": "pikku askel"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "small effort",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kleiner Schritt"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "small effort",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Minischritt"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "baby step"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the small, awkward movements of a young child learning to walk.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "baby steps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "baby step (plural baby steps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "baby talk"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Learning a new language is difficult, so we'll learn by taking baby steps.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 8, Jonathan Tannenwald, “CBS is launching a 24/7 soccer channel online”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer",
          "text": "From a news operation standpoint, we’re going to start out with baby steps, but, eventually, this is going to be what you would expect it to be: a 24-hour operating network that covers a sport soup to nuts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small effort made towards the completion of a much larger task."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly in the plural) A small effort made towards the completion of a much larger task."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "in-plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small effort",
      "word": "vauvanaskel"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small effort",
      "word": "pikku askel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "small effort",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kleiner Schritt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "small effort",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Minischritt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "baby step"
}