childhood
noun[CorU]
uk/ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/us/ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/B1
thetimewhen someone is achild:
童年;孩童时期,孩提时代She had anunhappychildhood.她的童年很不幸。
Childhood is not always ahappytime.童年并不总是快乐的时光。
Compare
boyhood
girlhoodold-fashioned
childhood
- childhoodMy childhood was spent moving from place to place as my father was in the army.
- boyhoodHe remembered his boyhood as an idyllic period of his life.
- girlhoodNot since her girlhood had she felt so free and uninhibited.
- infancyMany more children used to die in infancy.
- youthAt 25, he felt his youth was already coming to an end.
- Miller'sfascinationwithmedievalartdatesfrom her childhood.
- "I'd like toaskyou somequestionsaboutyourchildhood, if I may." "Fire away!"
- For Proust, thetasteof a madeleinebroughtchildhoodmemoriesfloodingback .
- Adults oftenlookback ontheirchildhood as agoldenage.
- Mostphobiasaregroundedin childhoodexperiences.
Stages of life
- adolescence
- adulthood
- age
- autumn
- autumn yearsidiom
- decline
- early years
- eventide
- formative
- generational
- get on
- infancy
- majority
- male menopause
- middle age
- middle-aged
- middlescence
- those were the daysidiom
- twilight yearsidiom
- youth
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