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
childhoodnoun
the time of person's life when they are a child
childhood, puerilitynoun
the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
Wiktionary
childhoodnoun
The state of being a child.
childhoodnoun
The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
childhoodnoun
The early stages of development of something.
Etymology: From childhod, from cildhad, from cild + -had, equivalent to.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Childhoodnoun
Etymology: from child, cildhad, Sax.
Now I have stain’d the childhood of our joy
With blood, remov’d but little from our own. William Shakespeare, R. & J.The sons of lords and gentlemen should be trained up in learning from their childhoods. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.
Seldom have I ceas’d to eye
Thy infancy, thy childhood, and thy youth. John Milton, Pa. Reg.The same authority that the actions of a man have with us in our childhood, the same, in every period of life, has the practice of all whom we regard as our superiours. John Rogers, Ser.
Infancy and childhood demand thin, copious, nourishing aliment. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.
Their love in early infancy began,
And rose as childhood ripen’d into man. John Dryden, Fables.
Webster Dictionary
Childhoodnoun
the state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty
Childhoodnoun
children, taken collectively
Childhoodnoun
the commencement; the first period
Etymology: [AS. cildhd; cild child + -hd. See Child, and -hood.]
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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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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
I actually had a pretty amazing childhood, i was adopted, if that’s what you’re referring to, but my family, my mom and my dad and my brothers, they are amazing, very stable, good Christian, God-fearing home, and a great small town of Star, Mississippi. I actually had a really stable childhood.
I think [ support for child care ] is super-critical, it's difficult when working parents don't have some place that they trust for their children to have a quality early childhood experience and makes them productive members of the workforce.
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
A common dilemma in this kind of research is that we have the information we need to establish associations between conditions in childhood and health outcomes in adulthood, but we know quite little about whatever is happening in between.
From the time my brother was murdered on, my sister and I did not have a happy childhood.
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- طفولةArabic
- бала саҡBashkir
- дзяцінстваBelarusian
- детствоBulgarian
- dětstvíCzech
- barndom, barndomstidDanish
- KindheitGerman
- πρώτα στάδια, παιδική ηλικίαGreek
- infanaĝoEsperanto
- niñez, infanciaSpanish
- بچگیPersian
- lapseus, lapsuusFinnish
- enfanceFrench
- יַלְדוּתHebrew
- बचपनHindi
- gyermekkorHungarian
- barnæskaIcelandic
- infanziaItalian
- 小児期, 幼年時代, 子供時代, 幼年Japanese
- ಬಾಲ್ಯKannada
- 어린이성, 유년 시대, 초기Korean
- bērnībaLatvian
- whanaketangaMāori
- детствоMacedonian
- barndomNorwegian
- kinderjaren, kindertijdDutch
- barndomNorwegian Nynorsk
- barndomNorwegian
- dzieciństwoPolish
- infânciaPortuguese
- copilărieRomanian
- детствоRussian
- detinjstvo, djetinjstvoSerbo-Croatian
- குழந்தைப் பருவம்Tamil
- బాల్యంTelugu
- çocuklukTurkish
- дитинствоUkrainian
- بچپنUrdu
- thời thơ ấuVietnamese
- cilüpVolapük
- 童年Chinese
- ubungane, ubuntwanaZulu
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