Childhood

Noun

 * 1)  The state of being a child.
 * 2) The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
 * 3)  The early stages of development of something.

Adjectives for Childhood
earliest; amazing; seeming; narrow; nightmare-ridden; neglected; sheltered; imaginative; distorted; light-hearted; bleak; lonely; cheerless; spindle-legged; pathetic; precocious; inconsiderate; captious; mysterious; docile; blooming; unappreciative; serene; satisfied; joyous; humble; meditative; healthy; ripe; passive.

Verbs for Childhood
acquire in—; affect—; care for during— conceive in—; dominate—; form during— govern—; inculcate in—;  learn  in— mould during—; preserve in—; recall— rejoice in—; reminisce about—; restrict— revert to—; teach in—; train in—; —contributes; —flees; —lapses; —ripens into —strays.

Thesaurus
adolescence, babyhood, beginnings, birth, boyhood, cradle, freshman year, genesis, girlhood, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, maidenhead, maidenhood, minority, nascence, nascency, nativity, origin, origination, parturition, pre-teens, pregnancy, puberty, subteens, teens, youth

Etymology
From childhod:, from  cildhad:, from cild: + -had:, equivalent to.

Derived terms

 * second childhood

Translations

 * Arabic: طفولة
 * Belarusian: дзяцінства
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:, , (lit.) , (lit.)
 * Mandarin: 童年, 幼年, 兒童期, 儿童期
 * Crimean Tatar: balalıq
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: lapseus
 * French: enfance
 * German:
 * Greek: παιδική ηλικία
 * Hebrew: ילדות
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: gyermekkor


 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 小児期, 幼年
 * Korean: 어린이성
 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: barndom
 * Persian: بچگی
 * Polish: dzieciństwo
 * Portuguese: infância
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: djetinjstvo
 * Spanish: infancia
 * Telugu: బాల్యం (baalyam)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: дитинство
 * Urdu:


 * Arabic: طفولة
 * Belarusian: дзяцінства
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin: 童年, 幼年, 兒童期, 儿童期
 * Crimean Tatar: balalıq
 * Czech:
 * Danish: barndom, barndomstid
 * Dutch: kinderjaren,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: παιδική ηλικία
 * Hebrew: ילדות


 * Hindi:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 幼年時代
 * Korean: 유년 시대
 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: barndom
 * Persian: بچگی
 * Polish: dzieciństwo
 * Portuguese: infância
 * Russian:
 * Telugu: బాల్యం (baalyam)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: дитинство
 * Urdu:
 * Volapük: cilüp
 * Zazaki:


 * Cantonese:, , , , ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Greek: πρώτα στάδια, παιδική ηλικία
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: djetinjstvo