3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
childhood
n 1: the time of person's life when they are a child
2: the state of a child between infancy and adolescence [syn: {puerility}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the
idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin
of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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