childhood
Pluralchildhoods
- 1The years when a person is a child, between being a baby and becoming a teenager.
Like the morning of a long day, the early part of your life before everything else.
She spent her childhood in a small fishing village by the sea.
Many of our happiest memories come from early childhood.
Similaryouth
Oppositeadulthood
- 2The condition of being a child rather than a grown-up.
The painting captures the joy and freedom of childhood.
Hard work on the farm left little room for childhood.
Oppositeadulthood
- 3The first stages when something new is still growing and developing.
Like the first small sprout of a plant before it grows tall and strong.
The internet was still in its childhood when she wrote her first website.
During the childhood of space travel, every launch was front-page news.
Oppositematurity
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Origin
From Old English "ċildhād," made from "child" plus "-hood."