About The Word Childhood
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Childhood
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What's The Definition Of Childhood?
[n] the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
[n] the time of person's life when they are a child Synonyms | Synonyms for Childhood: puerility Related Terms | Find terms related to Childhood: adolescence | babyhood | beginnings | birth | boyhood | cradle | freshman year | genesis | girlhood | inception | inchoation | incipience | incipiency | incunabula | infancy | maidenhead | maidenhood | minority | nascence | nascency | nativity | origin | origination | parturition | pregnancy | pre-teens | puberty | subteens | teens | youth See Also | anal phase | anal stage | boyhood | girlhood | immatureness | immaturity | latency period | latency phase | latency stage | maidenhood | maidhood | phallic phase | phallic stage | prepuberty | time of life Childhood In Webster's Dictionary \Child"hood\ (ch[imac]ld"h[oo^]d), n. [AS. cildh[=a]d;
cild child + -h[=a]d. See {Child}, and {-hood}.]
1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are
children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
I have walked before you from my childhood. --1.
Sam. xii. 2.
2. Children, taken collectively. [R.]
The well-governed childhood of this realm. --Sir. W.
Scott.
3. The commencement; the first period.
The childhood of our joy. --Shak.
{Second childhood}, the state of being feeble and incapable
from old age.
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