childhood : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: childhood	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for childhood
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
childhood n the time of person's life when they are a child the state of a child between infancy and adolescence Synonym(s): childhood, puerility
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Childhood \Child"hood\ (ch[imac]ld"h[oocr]d), n. [AS. cildh[be]d; cild child + -h[be]d. See {Child}, and {-hood}.] 1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. I have walked before you from my childhood. --1. Sam. xii. 2. 2. Children, taken collectively. [R.] The well-governed childhood of this realm. --Sir. W. Scott. 3. The commencement; the first period. The childhood of our joy. --Shak. {Second childhood}, the state of being feeble and incapable from old age.