childhood

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: child=hood
• COUNT in NET: 3 in 3 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses) (in NT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

childhood, n. [AS. cildhād; cild child + -hād. See Child, and -hood.].

•  The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.  [1913 Webster]

  "I have walked before you from my childhood."  [1913 Webster]
•  Children, taken collectively.  [1913 Webster]

  "The well-governed childhood of this realm."  [1913 Webster]
•  The commencement; the first period.  [1913 Webster]

  "The childhood of our joy."  [1913 Webster]

Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable from old age.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

childhood, n. the state or period of being a child.

Idiom

second childhood a person's dotage.

Etymology

OE cildhad

DEVIL DICTIONARY

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

childhood

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

ROGET THESAURUS

childhood

Youth

N youth, juvenility, juvenescence, juniority, infancy, babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood, incunabula, minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom, cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage, prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life, heyday of youth, school days, rising generation, young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens, in statu pupillari, younger, junior, hebetic, unfledged, youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm, youth a the glad season of life.