Meaning of childhood in English

childhood

noun [ C or U ]

/ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/ us

/ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/

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the time when someone is a child:

She had an unhappy childhood.

Childhood is not always a happy time.

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girlhood old-fashioned

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childhood

childhoodMy childhood was spent moving from place to place as my father was in the army.
boyhoodHe remembered his boyhood as an idyllic period of his life.
girlhoodNot since her girlhood had she felt so free and uninhibited.
infancyMany more children used to die in infancy.
youthAt 25, he felt his youth was already coming to an end.

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Miller's fascination with medieval art dates from her childhood.
"I'd like to ask you some questions about your childhood, if I may." "Fire away!"
For Proust, the taste of a madeleine brought childhood memories flooding back .
Adults often look back on their childhood as a golden age.
Most phobias are grounded in childhood experiences.

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(Definition of childhood from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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childhood

noun [ C/U ]

/ˈtʃɑɪld·hʊd/

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the time when a person is a child:

[ C ] She spent most of her childhood on a farm in Texas.

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In so doing, she has replaced the musical world of the area - 'stagey stuff' - with that of her childhood.

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An evaluation of peer coping-skills training for childhood aggression.

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The design of the current study precluded us from examining how the development of temperament may influence trajectories of symptomatology in early childhood.

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Unlike most of their peers, these children continue to exhibit high levels of aggression during middle childhood.

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Other adult disorders represent the eventual manifestation of a behavioral difficulty visible since early childhood.

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The children showing more modest levels of externalizing problems during childhood represent the third and fourth pathways.

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However, the discussion reviews the consequences of including a consideration of family poverty during the offspring's childhood in these models.

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High priority is given to maternal and child health care, and there are several programs for prevention of disease during pregnancy, childbirth, and early childhood.

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These results suggest that both primary and secondary prevention are needed to mitigate the long-term effects of childhood adversity on depression.

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Widespread childhood immunization should greatly reduce the number of primary cases.

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Still, the contradicting presence of more gender dysphoria in childhood but less at application should alert the clinician when assessing eligibility.

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There, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return.

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Late childhood and youth were the time periods in which most lasting words were received.

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Thus, it was decided to test the hypothesis that childhood trauma and neuroticism scores might be significantly related.

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Alternatively, low socio-economic status in childhood could be associated with both lung disease and depression later in life as links to both have been demonstrated.

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Translations of childhood

in Chinese (Traditional)

童年, 孩童時期，孩提時代…

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