Childhood - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- the state of a child between infancy and adolescence (syn: puerility)
Extra examples
Both men had unhappy childhoods.
I had a very happy childhood.
Most infections occur in childhood.
She had been writing poems since her childhood.
He took part in a study of childhood obesity.
The smell of pine sends my mind back to childhood.
She had a very happy childhood.
He had a normal childhood.
He writes in the program notes that the play was inspired by his own childhood.
...chicken pox and the other ills that were once a fixture of childhood...
He gave us a painfully honest account of his childhood.
He fulfilled his childhood wish to become a professional baseball player.
Her first novel was inspired by her early childhood.
...a psychotherapist who's a little too quick to attribute every emotional problem or character defect to an unhappy childhood...
Childhood seems a lifetime ago now!
Word forms
singular: childhood
plural: childhoods
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