childhood
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Learner's definition of CHILDHOOD
: the period of time when a person is a child
[noncount]
- I remember this place from (my) childhood.
- diseases that can occur in childhood
[count]
- Both men had unhappy childhoods.
- childhood heroes/friends/memories
- my childhood home
— see also second childhood
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