Definitions for childhood
ˈtʃaɪld hʊdchild·hood

Princeton's WordNet(3.25 / 8 votes)Rate this definition:

1. childhoodnoun

   the time of person's life when they are a child

2. childhood, puerilitynoun

   the state of a child between infancy and adolescence

Wiktionary(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. childhoodnoun

   The state of being a child.

   Etymology: From childhod, from cildhad, from cild + -had, equivalent to .

2. childhoodnoun

   The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.

   Etymology: From childhod, from cildhad, from cild + -had, equivalent to .

3. childhoodnoun

   The early stages of development of something.

   Etymology: From childhod, from cildhad, from cild + -had, equivalent to .

Webster Dictionary(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Childhoodnoun

   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.]

2. Childhoodnoun

   children, taken collectively

   Etymology: [AS. cildhd; cild child + -hd. See Child, and -hood.]

3. Childhoodnoun

   the commencement; the first period

   Etymology: [AS. cildhd; cild child + -hd. See Child, and -hood.]

Freebase(3.55 / 9 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.

Matched Categories

1. • Immaturity
   • Time Of Life

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'childhood' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3430

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'childhood' in Nouns Frequency: #1439

How to pronounce childhood?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say childhood in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of childhood in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of childhood in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of childhood in a Sentence

1. Wayne W Dyer:

   It's never to late to have a happy childhood.

2. Anuj Somany:

   It has been a personal observation that a child who remains deprived of love and affection of own parents especially mother since very early times is often grown up as a relatively better person in nature than those people who since their childhood days get constantly pampered by their parents.

3. Greta Thunberg:

   You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet, I'm one of the lucky ones, people are suffering, people are dying.

4. Anthony Bourdain:

   Once I did that risky thing, leaving the only profession I knew to become a professional writer and TV guy, I was, and continue to be, very careful about the decisions I make every day, that was really the first time I started thinking about saving money. About not finding myself in that terrifying space, that uncertainty that goes back to childhood.

5. Emma Haruka Iwao:

   It was my childhood dream, a longtime dream, to break the world record for pi.

Images & Illustrations of childhood

Popularity rank by frequency of use