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childhood

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Scrabble points
19
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19
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/

Definition of childhood

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)The state of being a child.
    “To our own surprise, our 40-year study of 1,000 children revealed that childhood self-control strongly predicts adult success, in people of high or low intelligence, in rich or poor, and does so throughout the entire population, with a step change in health, wealth, and social success at every level of self-control.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)The state of being a child.
    “To our own surprise, our 40-year study of 1,000 children revealed that childhood self-control strongly predicts adult success, in people of high or low intelligence, in rich or poor, and does so throughout the entire population, with a step change in health, wealth, and social success at every level of self-control.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
    “He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.”
  3. (broadly, countable, uncountable)The early stages of development of something.
    “the childhood of our joy”

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Etymology

From Middle English childhode, childhod, from Old English ċildhād (“childhood”). By surface analysis, child + -hood. Compare dialectal Dutch kindheid (“childishness”), German Low German Kinnerheid (“childhood”), and German Kindheit (“childhood”).

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