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childhood

[ chahyld-hood ]
/ ˈtʃaɪld hʊd /
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noun
the state or period of being a child.
the early stage in the existence of something: the childhood of the human race.

OTHER WORDS FOR childhood

1 youth, boyhood, girlhood, school days.
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Origin of childhood

before 950; Middle English childhode,Old English cildhād.See child, -hood

OTHER WORDS FROM childhood

pre·child·hood, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for childhood

childhood
/ (ˈtʃaɪldhʊd) /

noun
the condition of being a child; the period of life before puberty
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