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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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