child·hood /ˈʧaɪldˌhʊd/
 U幼年,童年


 child·hood /ˈʧaɪldˌhʊd/ 名詞
 兒童期


 Child·hood n.
 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.

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 childhood
      n 1: the time of person's life when they are a child
      2: the state of a child between infancy and adolescence [syn: puerility]