Childhood
['tʃaɪldhʊd]
Definition
(noun.) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence.
(noun.) the time of person's life when they are a child.
Typed by Cyril--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
(n.) Children, taken collectively.
(n.) The commencement; the first period.
Editor: Quentin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Infancy, minority, pupilage, nonage.
Typist: Sol
Unserious Contents or Definition
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.
Typist: Ronald
Examples
- In childhood and youth, with their relative freedom from economic stress, this fact is naked and unconcealed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He brought the happiness of childhood into political discussion, and this opened up a new source of political power. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My tears had risen, just as in childhood: I ordered them back to their source. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I should think, from her childhood, she must have lived in public stations; and in her youth might very likely have been a barmaid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He loved his daughter with more fondness now, perhaps, than ever he had done since the days of her childhood. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Earth, gray with age, shall hear the strain Which o’er her childhood rolled; For her the morning stars again Shall sing their song of old. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There was something in this simple memento of a blighted childhood, and in the tenderness of Mrs Boffin, that touched the Secretary. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If these were some of the inconveniences of Mr. Skimpole's childhood, it assuredly possessed its advantages too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was her father; and she, since childhood, had been the guide of his darkened steps. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And even though the pernicious drug craving is not created, considerable harm is done to the child, because its body is left weak and non-resistant to diseases of infancy and childhood. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I cannot call to mind where or when, in my childhood, I had seen a stained glass window in a church. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Both of these conditions are at their height in childhood and youth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In this state of second childhood, it had an air of being in its own way garrulous about its early life. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If you would say the old good words, it would make me feel something of the pious simplicity of my childhood. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I have passed out of childhood into old age. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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