childhood
- noun
- /ˈtʃaɪldhʊd/
- Many of my happiest memories come from my childhood experiences in the countryside.
- early childhood
- childhood and adolescence
- childhood abuse
But that said, it also made your childhood much worse.
- But that said, it also made your childhood much worse.
- Anyway, that was a tour of my childhood books.
- Where were you and what did, what did childhood look like?
- To push down that impermissible feeling from my childhood and to hide it.
- I look back now and the childhood I had was just amazing.
- This can come from childhood or into his adult life.
- Something happens in middle school or childhood and you store that information.
Examples
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I would love to know some of your favorite childhood books that shaped you.
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They were my childhood pets, and they were named after Italian Renaissance painters.
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Anyway, that was a tour of my childhood books.
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I look back now and the childhood I had was just amazing.
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Think back to a time in your childhood when you were so excited.
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For most of my childhood, River Street connected me to the rest of the world.
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You had a very happy childhood.
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I had a perfectly normal childhood.
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I would venture to guess that many of you have similar childhood memories.
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It smells like my childhood.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
Years from birth to about six years old when children grow and learn quickly
A happy time from when you were a child that you still think about with joy
- Archaic
A period in old age when mental decline makes a person behave like a young child
How Old
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Childhood is made of child and the ending -hood, which means 'state' or 'time', as in adulthood or neighborhood. So childhood is the time of being a child before you grow up.