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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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:
       childhood, puerility]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            I have walked before you from my childhood. --1.
                                                  Sam. xii. 2.
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   2. Children, taken collectively. [R.]
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            The well-governed childhood of this realm. --Sir. W.
                                                  Scott.
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   3. The commencement; the first period.
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            The childhood of our joy.             --Shak.
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   Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable
      from old age.
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3. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
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.


Thesaurus Results for Childhood:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
adolescence, babyhood, beginnings, birth, boyhood, cradle, freshman year, genesis, girlhood, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, maidenhead, maidenhood, minority, nascence, nascency, nativity, origin, origination, parturition, pre-teens, pregnancy, puberty, subteens, teens, youth
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