noun

• The state or period of being a child.

  ‘he spent his childhood in Lewes’

  More example sentences

  • ‘the idealized world of childhood’
  • ‘a childhood friend’
  • ‘You have to be ready to detail anything from childhood illnesses to the consistency of your stools.’
  • ‘As she grows up and matures, you will notice many of these childhood traits develop into adult ones.’
  • ‘The wisdom contained in the honey from wild bees made it a complete food for this childhood era of mankind.’
  • ‘It is about the loss of childhood innocence and the bruises of adult experience.’
  • ‘Ah, those far off days when childhood still retained the innocence that has been so sadly lost today.’
  • ‘I seemed to spend an inordinate amount of my childhood running away from people.’
  • ‘Are your most formative years those of your early childhood or your early teens?’
  • ‘Of course she has not changed, she is the same despicable character she was in childhood.’
  • ‘How many of our childhood friends will be married with families of their own?’
  • ‘Pushing the door in, she stood in wonder at the sight of her childhood friend.’
  • ‘He is completing a lengthy poem about his childhood experiences of the Holocaust.’
  • ‘His childhood and youth were spent helping his father in unsuccessful farming ventures.’
  • ‘Mortality in childhood is heavily influenced by deaths from motor vehicle accidents.’
  • ‘She has said that there were periods in her childhood when learning proved difficult.’
  • ‘Just as our concepts of childhood have changed, so have our concepts of childhood problems.’
  • ‘To my childhood imagination, however, that girl seemed to be going off to a fate worse than death.’
  • ‘These findings come at a time of high official concern with childhood obesity.’
  • ‘Unhealthy lifestyles and childhood obesity is a modern epidemic of the western world.’
  • ‘The effects of childhood malnutrition are a legacy reflected in his sunken features.’
  • ‘I regard myself as very fortunate to have spent my childhood years in a very special place.’

  Synonyms

  youth, early years, early days, early life, infancy, babyhood, boyhood, girlhood, pre-teens, preadolescence, prepubescence, adolescence, teens, teenage years, young adulthood, immaturity

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