noun
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The state of being a child.
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The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
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(by extension) The early stages of development of something.
Examples of childhood in a Sentence
Josh had been her childhood playmate.
This brings back childhood memories.
His childhood was passed in dire poverty.
Josh had left childhood behind long ago and this little frolic in the snow probably looked anything but innocent to him.
It took her mind back to childhood memories of barefoot strolls down dusty lanes.
She would probably appreciate a visit from a childhood friend.
Why wouldn't you want to see yourself growing up, what your childhood was like?
But Wagner never thus represented the childhood of an ideal, though he attained the manhood of the most comprehensive ideal yet known in art.
He passed his childhood at Pernau, where his father was commandant.
From earliest childhood he displayed a love of adventure and natural history.
The ancients also recounts a few points regarding the childhood of Zoroaster and his hermit-life.
Looking at their childhood home, Aidan and Sarah were able to reminisce on memories with their family.
His childhood and youth were passed in poverty, and his health was early impaired by hard manual labour.
The skin is dark brown, the hair black and, while in childhood the head is shaved with the exception of a small tuft at the top, in later life it is dressed so as to resemble a brush.
She cannot know in detail how she was taught, and her memory of her childhood is in some cases an idealized memory of what she has learned later from her teacher and others.
Mill expressly says that his childhood was not unhappy.
His constitution, weakly in childhood, strengthened with advancing years so as to allow him to get through an incredible amount of sedentary labour, while he retained to the last the fresh and cheerful temperament of a boy.
A comes was generally raised from childhood in the king's palace, and rose to be a count through successive stages.
In childhood also he began a systematic practice of composition, both in prose and verse.
The disease struck people in childhood or in the prime of life.
I assumed my childhood chum was disappointed in me alone.
After all of Jonny's childhood injuries she'd healed, she couldn't fix her own heart!
He and Sylvia had a wonderful childhood.
John Major in his Latin History speaks of "one Henry, blind from his birth, who, in the time of my childhood, fashioned a whole book about William Wallace, and therein wrote down in our popular verse - and this was a kind of composition in which he had much skill - all that passed current among the people in his day.
The minister was hated as a foreigner, and the childhood of the king weakened the royal authority.
Actually, a protected childhood probably left her ill prepared for socializing.
Martha didn't ask for details, nor did the Deans offer any beyond dire cautionary warnings of childhood dangers.
Shortly before his acquittal he had been able to satisfy the dream of his childhood, by buying back the ancestral manor of Daylesford, where the remainder of his life was passed in honourable retirement.
The two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike.
Its old-fashioned garden was the paradise of my childhood.
After a childhood filled with foster homes, she feared getting too comfortable, even in the home of the man who adopted her twelve years ago, when she was ten.
With Barnardo 's help, childhood trauma need not mean a hopeless future.
David does n't curse his family, or lay the blame on his troubled childhood.
Here Patrick spent 7 years of childhood, with a strong Catholic upbringing.
The author liked to reminisce on stories from his childhood while writing books.
Susan would only equivocate when I asked her about her childhood.
As soon as Lacey left her childhood home, she became an apostate.
Do the teachers have degrees in early or elementary childhood?
I had an unbelievably great childhood, though.
Individuals with MPS I H/S may die in childhood or live to adulthood.
With Barnardo's help, childhood abuse need not lead to an empty future.
Rhythm, rhyme and playground chants are vital to early childhood.
More than just a familiar face on the big screen, he is also the man behind Antonio Banderas Seductive Fragrances, a collection of scents inspired by his childhood interest in perfume.
Solid perfumes take me back to my childhood, when I'd dig through my mother's fragrance stash from the 1970s and '80s and have a field day.
Available education degrees include Bachelor of Science in Education/Elementary Education, Master of Arts in Education/Early Childhood Education, and Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership.
The University of Missouri Columbia's online offerings include a Master of Education degree with early childhood education, gifted education, literacy, and social studies concentrations.
Everyone has a few they remember from childhood; the cookies their mother used to make, the cake grandma always brought over, or the special something that you always left out for Santa.
Did your childhood home have any interesting or unusual features?
Tell them to think about childhood holidays and special occasions and any dish that was frequently served during that get-together.
Often, these problems can arise from childhood.