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Childhood : (noun)
1: the time of person's life when they are a child
2: the state of a child between infancy and adolescence [syn: puerility]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Childhood : \Child"hood\ (ch[imac]ld"h[oo^]d), n. [AS. cildh[=a]d;
cild child _ -h[=a]d. See Child, and -hood.]
1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are
children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
I have walked before you from my childhood. --1.
Sam. xii. 2.
2. Children, taken collectively. [R.]
The well-governed childhood of this realm. --Sir. W.
Scott.
3. The commencement; the first period.
The childhood of our joy. --Shak.
Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable
from old age.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Childhood : Childhood: (1) The time for a boy or girl from birth until he or she is an adult. (2) The more circumscribed period of time from infancy to the onset of puberty .
During childhood, the potential of a unique human person must be nurtured by parents or parent figures.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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