Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The time or state of being a child.
- n. The early stage in the existence or development of something: the childhood of Western civilization.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being a child, or the time during which a person is termed a child; the time from birth to puberty; in a more restricted sense, the state or time from infancy to boyhood or girlhood; the period during which constant maternal care continues to be needed.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The state of being a child.
- n. The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
- n. by extension The early stages of development of something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
- n. rare Children, taken collectively.
- n. The commencement; the first period.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the time of person's life when they are a child
- n. the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
Etymologies
- From Middle English childhod, from Old English ċildhād ("childhood"), from ċild ("child") + -hād ("-hood"), equivalent to child + -hood. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Inasmuch as the symptoms of this latter come to differ from those of childhood proper, not abruptly, but gradually, the first years, at least, of youth will often come under our consideration, and I shall speak of this period of life as the _third period of childhood_.”
“If we consider how essential to such a masterpiece is inoculation of belief in the tender age of childhood, the system of missions appears no longer merely as the height of human importunity, arrogance, and impertinence, but also of absurdity; in so far as it does not confine itself to people who are still in the stage of _childhood_, such as the Hottentots, Kaffirs,”
“At the time, the term childhood obesity was not making headlines, but the running community, usually ahead of the curve when it comes to health issues, felt that kids were in need of an extra push to get out and work their bodies.”
“The term childhood obesity is most often used to describe the rising problem of childhood overweight.”
“So much for the notion that “chubbiness” in childhood is something that is cute and just a sign of a “healthy” appetite.”
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Obesity Promotes Musculoskeletal Problems in Kids
“Increased fat in childhood is a known risk for being overweight in adulthood.”
The Guardian: Bottle-feeding babies can lead to adult obesity, says study
“Like many others of the past few generations, my introduction to the works of Lewis Carroll came to me in childhood from the hegemony of Walt Disney.”
“I doubt that it gave any noticeable benefit - making up for what has been missed in childhood is very difficult.”
“A few cigarettes, a few mouthfuls of meat, a few annas pilfered in childhood from the maidservant, two visits to a brothel (on each occasion he got away without doing anything), one narrowly escaped lapse with his landlady in Plymouth, one outburst of temperthat is about the whole collection.”
“And either was ever ready to listen to the smallest of these little mysteries, knowing that nothing in childhood is too trivial for the notice, too foolish for the sympathy, of those on whom the Father of all men has bestowed the holy dignity of parenthood.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘childhood’.
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CULT - protection of young persons
The negative impact of media on young generations (violence, sexual content, hate speech, etc.)
sexualization, child sex traffic..., pornified, porning, corporate paedoph..., sexualised repres..., sexual appeal, sexually objectified, premature sexuali..., sexual connotations, European Parents'..., healthy development and 160 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Fauvism
Words to describe art of the fauvist movement
wild, beast, color, fauve, fauvism, fauvist, avant garde, floating, violent, outrageous, radical, dynamite and 82 more...
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Hoods
Inspired by comments over on muffinhood.
muffinhood, Robin Hood, maidenhood, knighthood, neighborhood, thiefhood, monkshood, childhood, manhood, little red riding..., falsehood, fatherhood and 71 more...
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happy words
Words that cheer you up, give you happy thoughts and feelings, or just put you in a positive state of mind.
magic, childhood, dawn, smile, kitten, drizzle, friend, beach, free, love, sweet, cozy and 20 more...
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-hood
quality; character; state; condition; whole group of
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Words suggested in response to Funk's...
In response to Wilfred J. Funk's "ten most beautiful words in the English language" list of 1932.
beer, rum, rye, sauterne, sherry, brandy, bourbon, Scotch, champagne, cocktail, lyric, serenity and 137 more...
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Themes
Themes from my life, writing, and art.
identity, self, too much, not enough, sorry, walls, borders, boundaries, flight, wings, butterflies, rebirth and 25 more...
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hood
hood mockingbird, hood ornament, the hood, robin hood, under the hood, hood wink, hood blink, Hood River, childhood, bachelorhood, livelihood, neighborhood and 8 more...
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ea poe
forevermore, midnight, silken, darkness, beguile, dream, deep, roar, shore, sand, grains, lily and 71 more...
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The O.U.P. Junior Dictionary Neophytes
Counterpart to the Death Row list.
blog, broadband, mp3 player, voicemail, attachment, database, export, chatroom, bullet point, cut and paste, analogue, celebrity and 40 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for childhood.
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