English Online Dictionary. What means childhood? What does childhood mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English childhode, childhod, from Old English ċildhād (“childhood”), equivalent to child + -hood. Compare dialectal Dutch kindheid (“childishness”), German Low German Kinnerheid (“childhood”), and German Kindheit (“childhood”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɪldhʊd/
- Rhymes: -aɪldhʊd
- Hyphenation: child‧hood
Noun
childhood (countable and uncountable, plural childhoods)
- (chiefly uncountable) The state of being a child.
- The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
- (by extension) The early stages of development of something.
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See also
- childhood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle English
Noun
childhood
- Alternative form of childhode