The meaning of CHILDHOOD is the state or period of being a child. How to use childhood in a sentence.

(Definition of childhood from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

child development, the growth of perceptual, emotional, intellectual, and behavioral capabilities and functioning during childhood. The term childhood denotes that period in the human lifespan from the …

Childhood (being a child) is a broad term usually applied to the phase of Human development between infancy and adulthood. Childhood is the time during which human beings develop their physical …

A person's childhood is the period of their life when they are a child. She had a happy childhood. He was remembering a story heard in childhood. ...childhood illnesses.

1. The time or state of being a child. 2. The early stage in the existence or development of something: the childhood of Western civilization.

Definition of childhood noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

CHILDHOOD definition: the state or period of being a child. See examples of childhood used in a sentence.

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

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