childhood

Noun

Meaning

The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.

Children, taken collectively.

The commencement; the first period.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

youth infancy boyhood girlhood puerility infanthood youthfulness early years formative years early life bloom age beginning majority child
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Antonyms

parenthood death majority manliness eld maturity
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Hypernyms

immaturity immatureness time of life

Hyponyms

boyhood girlhood maidenhood maidhood

Phrases with the word

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Examples

The old are in a second childhood. Aristophanes

Genius is childhood recalled at will. Charles Baudelaire

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. Gertrude Stein

When your beard appears, childhood disappears. Rwandan Proverb

What one learns in childhood he carries into adulthood. Filipino Proverb

No one wants to remember his childhood. Icelandic Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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