babyhood
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪbiˌhʊd/
:
infancia
- I spent so much time fighting the thoughts that I was robbed of my daughter's babyhood.
- years of babyhood
Examples
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The familiar smell of him since babyhood is slightly sour, slightly heavy, thrilling, and comforting.
Fiction book (1996) -
In the meantime, we are trying to have a normal babyhood and childhood while managing this disease.
Blog text (10) -
There is something to this that our North American babyhood experience seems to lack.
Blog text (23) -
Nine had made it out of babyhood and are now fully grown.
Fiction book (1992) -
But what had happened to her own room, the room that had been Pandora's since babyhood?
Fiction book (1990) -
No one claimed to remember Delia's babyhood.
Fiction book (1995) -
During the years that our three children were growing from babyhood to youth, Madeline was not considered as much a book in our household as it was a language and a way of life.
Fiction book (2001) -
Cathy was the baby of the family, the youngest of her mother's twenty-five children, barely half of whom survived babyhood.
Fiction book (1995) -
Except for the occasional runny nose or ear infection, they survived babyhood without a single bout of measles, croup, or bubonic plague.
Blog text (6) -
Many important milestones occur during babyhood, like learning to crawl and speak.
Synonyms
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The very early time when something is just starting
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Morphology
Etymology
Babyhood is made of baby and hood. The hood part means 'state' or 'time of life', the same piece you see in childhood and adulthood, so babyhood is the 'state of being a baby'.