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Definition of Childhood

1. Noun. The time of person's life when they are a child.

Definition of Childhood

1. n. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.

Definition of Childhood

1. Noun. The state of being a child. ¹

2. Noun. The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty. ¹

3. Noun. (by extension) The early stages of development of something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Childhood

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Medical Definition of Childhood

1. The period of life between infancy and puberty. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Childhood

Literary usage of Childhood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1897)
"childhood. term childhood will admit of a great variety of defini- J- tions. ... Still another common conception represents childhood as a period of ..."

2. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"I look back to this as among the heaviest of my childhood's sorrows. ... But the sorrows of childhood, like the pleasures of after life, are transient. ..."

3. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1920)
"MEDIASTINAL AFFECTIONS IN childhood WS LEMON, MB THE neoplasms and inflammatory tumors of the mediastinum of childhood differ but little in symptoms or ..."

4. Sermons by Frederick Brooks, Phillips Brooks (1875)
"WE have the facts of Jesus's childhood put before us this morning. All that there is known of His Divine childhood is given us here; His flight into Egypt, ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"Rare Occurrences in the Rheumatism of childhood.—FJ POYN- TON (Brit. Med. Jour., 1911, ii, 5) urges the importance of accepting the view that rheumatism in ..."

6. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. by Harriet Jacobs (1862)
"I. childhood. I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1887)
"Although hemiplegia in childhood is often attended by certain peculiarities which entitle it to special consideration, none of the works on children's ..."

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