childhood

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These friends of her childhood were at that moment so distasteful as to have become hateful.

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  1. noun The time or state of being a child.
  2. noun The early stage in the existence or development of something: the childhood of Western civilization.

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  1. from Middle English childhod, -hode, -hade, -hede, from Anglo-Saxon cildhād (cf. Old High German chindheit, German kindheit = Dutch kindschheid), from cild, child, + hād, state: see child and -hood.
 

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/ˈtʃaɪldhəd/
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