Definition for Childhood:

• 1. The period of life between infancy and puberty. 2. In dentistry the period between the first appearance of the milk teeth and the complete formation of the roots of all the permanent teeth except the third molars; the childhood period of the permanent teeth is the time between their first appearance and the complete formation of all the roots except those of the third molars.

Synonyms for Childhood:

• n.

  •
  • childish,
  • early,
  • babyish.
  •age (noun)
  • old age,
  • girlhoods,
  • adulthood.
  •babyhood (noun)
  • diaper day,
  • infanthoods.
  •boyhood (noun)
  • schoolboy day,
  • young manhoods,
  • juniorities.
  •childhood (noun)
  • puerility.
  •period of being young (noun)
  • nursery,
  • juvenility,
  • tender age,
  • teens,
  • cradle,
  • schooldays.
  •time (noun)
  • childhood.
  •youth (noun)
  • juvenescence,
  • youngness,
  • springtime of life,
  • jejunity,
  • youthfulness,
  • springtide,
  • awkward age,
  • greenness,
  • ignorance.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • adolescence,
  • pester power,
  • childlike,
  • puberty,
  • stripling,
  • development,
  • grow up,
  • grow up on,
  • girlhood,
  • school-age,
  • juvenile,
  • developmental,
  • boyhood.
  •
  • world.
  •childhood
  • immaturity.
  •immaturity
  • nonage.

Paraphrases for Childhood:

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    child.
  • Proper noun, singular
    child, Children.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    child, Children.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    boyhood.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    Children, childish, childcare.
  • Proper noun, singular
    toddlers, dependants.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    childcare, kindergarten.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    infancy.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    infancy.

Antonyms for Childhood:

• n.

  • period of being young
    adulthood.
  • Other antonyms:
    winter, sunset, midlife, middle age, majority, Senectitude.

Childhood Sentence Examples:

• The old story known to most people from their childhood was all new and fresh to Philip.

• But there is another guest in the hotel, a Colonel Estcourt, who, it turns out had known this woman since childhood.

Hypernym for Childhood:

• n.

  • time
    girlhood, maidenhood, boyhood, maidhood.

Hyponym for Childhood:

• n.

  • time
    time of life.

Meronym for Childhood:

• n.

  • time
    latency period, latency stage, anal phase, anal stage, prepuberty, phallic phase, latency phase, phallic stage.