What does childhood mean?
Definitions for childhood
ˈtʃaɪld hʊdchild·hood
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word childhood.
Princeton's WordNet
childhood(noun)
the time of person's life when they are a child
childhood, puerility(noun)
the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
Wiktionary
childhood(Noun)
The state of being a child.
Etymology: From childhod, from cildhad, from cild + -had, equivalent to .
childhood(Noun)
The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
Etymology: From childhod, from cildhad, from cild + -had, equivalent to .
childhood(Noun)
The early stages of development of something.
Etymology: From childhod, from cildhad, from cild + -had, equivalent to .
Webster Dictionary
Childhood(noun)
the state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty
Etymology: [AS. cildhd; cild child + -hd. See Child, and -hood.]
Childhood(noun)
children, taken collectively
Etymology: [AS. cildhd; cild child + -hd. See Child, and -hood.]
Childhood(noun)
the commencement; the first period
Etymology: [AS. cildhd; cild child + -hd. See Child, and -hood.]
Freebase
Childhood
Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, childhood consists of two stages: preoperational stage and concrete operational stage. In developmental psychology, childhood is divided up into the developmental stages of toddlerhood, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence. Various childhood factors could affect a person's attitude formation.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'childhood' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3430
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Rank popularity for the word 'childhood' in Nouns Frequency: #1439
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of childhood in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of childhood in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of childhood in a Sentence
This study is about righting a longstanding error and prejudice about the differences between these common childhood adversities, it suggests that whether we are talking about prevention, screening or treatment, our notions of childhood mistreatment need to be broader and more holistic than they have been.
At the stroke of midnight as my childhood ended, I prayed and cried in a pool of moonlight to the listener who knows All, for my mission to actualise and thus, my eternal duty begins.
Having a hard childhood (and) being picked on because of my burns, I found comfort in the beautiful amazing photos of this beautiful stranger, this nurse, holding me, and you can feel the compassion and love she had for me.
[Warren] was in charge of church history, so for a lot of us children who were born into this, our days would be forever listening to these tapes of Warren’s voice playing over and over of him teaching us church history. It became the backdrop of our childhood.
It's a childhood dream, looking at the leaderboard, it's still a little bit surreal.
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- طفولةArabic
- бала саҡBashkir
- дзяцінстваBelarusian
- детствоBulgarian
- dětstvíCzech
- barndom, barndomstidDanish
- KindheitGerman
- παιδική ηλικία, πρώτα στάδιαGreek
- infanaĝoEsperanto
- infancia, niñezSpanish
- بچگیPersian
- lapsuus, lapseusFinnish
- enfanceFrench
- יַלְדוּתHebrew
- बचपनHindi
- gyermekkorHungarian
- barnæskaIcelandic
- infanziaItalian
- 小児期, 幼年時代, 幼年, 子供時代Japanese
- ಬಾಲ್ಯKannada
- 유년 시대, 초기, 어린이성Korean
- bērnībaLatvian
- whanaketangaMāori
- детствоMacedonian
- barndomNorwegian
- kindertijd, kinderjarenDutch
- barndomNorwegian Nynorsk
- barndomNorwegian
- dzieciństwoPolish
- infânciaPortuguese
- copilărieRomanian
- детствоRussian
- detinjstvo, djetinjstvoSerbo-Croatian
- బాల్యంTelugu
- çocuklukTurkish
- дитинствоUkrainian
- بچپنUrdu
- thời thơ ấuVietnamese
- cilüpVolapük
- 童年Chinese
- ubungane, ubuntwanaZulu
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