Synonyms for childhood
ˈtʃaɪld hʊdchild·hood

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1. childhoodnoun

   the time of person's life when they are a child

   Synonyms:
   puerility

2. childhood, puerilitynoun

   the state of a child between infancy and adolescence

   Synonyms:
   puerility, childishness

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1. • Immaturity
   • Time Of Life

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1. childhoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   infancy, minority, pupilage, nonage

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1. childhoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   nonage, infancy, minority, impuberty, pupilage

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1. List of paraphrases for "childhood":

   children, child, infancy, 'enfance, infant, infância, enfance, pre-school, preschool

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How to use childhood in a sentence?

1. Samuel Johnson:

   Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

2. Sydney J. Harris:

   We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying, It got lost, and say, I lost it.

3. Anthony Bourdain:

   Once I did that risky thing, leaving the only profession I knew to become a professional writer and TV guy, I was, and continue to be, very careful about the decisions I make every day, that was really the first time I started thinking about saving money. About not finding myself in that terrifying space, that uncertainty that goes back to childhood.

4. Raul Juarez/Congresswoman-Elect Dlia Ramirez:

   I am clear that anyone willing to risk dying, starving or even being raped in the long journey through desert, cold and tunnels is crossing because they feel like there is no other solution to their situation. Their migration is the only way they see themselves and loved ones surviving deep poverty and, in some cases, persecution, my mother wouldn’t have risked my life or hers had it not been the only option she saw for her unborn child to have a chance at a life and childhood better than hers.

5. German proverb:

   It's not that age brings childhood back again; Age merely shows what children we remain.