kittenhood
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A time when a cat is young and learns many things
- noun
- /ˈkɪtənˌhʊd/
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infancia de gato
- During her kittenhood, she loved to chase after strings and pounce on shadows.
- the first visit in kittenhood
- a visit in kittenhood
Examples
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He has passed kittenhood now and is baffling us all: Is this as large as Clive will grow? ask the children; and we shake our heads and say, children, we will just have to wait and see.
Blog text (6) -
She approached the elder, a fat, dignified man who busily washed the inky black fur of a cat not far out of kittenhood.
Fiction book (1994) -
Many behaviors learned in kittenhood can shape a cat's personality for life.
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The playful antics of the cat reminded me of its vibrant kittenhood days.
How Young
Surface Forms
kittenhood singular
kittenhoods plural
Morphology
Etymology
Kittenhood combines kitten (a young cat) and the ending -hood, which comes from an old English word meaning 'state' or 'period', the same ending you see in childhood. So, kittenhood simply means the 'time' when a cat is a kitten.