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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
childhood
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a childhood dream (=that you had when you were a child)
▪ I had a childhood dream of becoming an astronaut.
a childhood friend (=someone who was your friend when you were a child)
▪ She had been a childhood friend of Tony Walker.
a childhood illness
▪ Measles is a common childhood illness.
a childhood memory
▪ Going to the farm brought back happy childhood memories.
an unhappy childhood
▪ Stevens had a unhappy childhood in Manchester.
childhood experiences
▪ Our childhood experiences make us what we are as adults.
childhood sweethearts
▪ They were childhood sweethearts.
loveless marriage/childhood/relationship etc
sb's childhood/teenage years
▪ the home in which she spent her childhood years
sb’s boyhood/childhood hero (=someone who was your hero when you were a boy/child)
▪ McEnroe had been one of his boyhood heroes.
sb’s childhood/boyhood etc home (=where you lived as a child)
▪ I had not been back to my childhood home for ten years.
sb’s early childhood/adolescence/life (=when someone is a young child, adolescent etc)
▪ We’ve known each other since early childhood.
second childhood
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ Several other individual and household characteristics could be examined for their influence upon probabilities of early childhood survival.
▪ All three children have been involved in the business from their earliest childhood.
▪ Fighting against threats to young children's rights to early childhood opportunities could be seen as an expression of legitimate collective responsibility.
▪ One is a small pile of undated photographs I have from my early childhood.
▪ There is a great deal of evidence which indicates that experiences in early childhood are very important, and that the effects are long-lasting.
▪ Indeed, the schemata of adulthood have their origins in the schemata of early childhood.
▪ There was nothing in his early childhood to hint at the extraordinary life he would lead.
▪ But there are several stories about his early childhood.
happy
▪ But, although she had progressed from happy childhood to happy marriage, all the while a conflict was raging within her.
▪ Born in Swansea of modest entrepreneurial stock, he had a happy childhood, and he recreates its pleasures well.
▪ I had a very happy childhood!
▪ Both Charles and Diana were determined that their children were going to have normal, happy childhoods.
▪ Both had had happy, loving childhoods: with that, he always claimed, you could cope with anything.
■ NOUN
cancer
▪ Further research is to be carried out among 5,000 people who survived childhood cancer and were born before 1969.
▪ The latest report looked at 74 recorded cases of childhood cancer in the area between 1950 and 1985.
▪ This suggested that unlike adult cancers, childhood cancers were not caused by factors in the environment.
▪ A longitudinal health study of this population is required to see if the incidence of other childhood cancers is increased.
▪ Incidence of second primary tumours among childhood cancer survivors.
▪ Family support is also important in the University's childhood cancer programme.
▪ Pollutants such as nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons have also been linked to hay fever, chest infection and childhood cancer.
▪ Management of childhood cancers follows a different path to that of adult cancers.
days
▪ His mind was back to those warm childhood days before the war.
disease
▪ Mr Brown also announced plans to provide developing countries with cheap vaccines against childhood diseases.
▪ Also invoked against childhood diseases and physical abuse.
dream
▪ In it he details his childhood dream of climbing Everest - and his fulfilment of this remarkable ambition three years ago.
▪ It was nursing that gave her the financial wherewithal to pursue a childhood dream.
education
▪ This project originated from a recognition that a major concern in early childhood education in Britain at present is the role of parents.
▪ Interest is growing in several parts of the country in practitioner research in early childhood education and care.
▪ The same trends are evident in early childhood education.
▪ One such theme - and one of the most important - is the development of language and literacy in early childhood education.
▪ Just recently, she helped start an early childhood education program in two Washington housing projects.
▪ Before it is all forgotten, let us reclaim the recent history of early childhood education.
▪ The first aspect - the role of narrative in learning - is introduced through a study of literature in early childhood education.
experience
▪ Just how much is due to inherited characteristics, and how much to other biological factors or early childhood experiences is still uncertain.
▪ Jo Spence went on to explore her childhood experience in her own photographic work.
▪ The adverse childhood experiences therefore seemed to act in two ways.
▪ They argue that these men have suffered bad childhood experiences which have prevented their normal development.
▪ In fact Charles's childhood experiences confirmed him in his decision not to employ a nanny for his own children.
▪ What are the parents' childhood experiences?
▪ Therapists vary in the importance they attach to background and childhood experiences of the parents.
▪ Our childhood experiences are very important.
friend
▪ He married his childhood friend Mary Maria, daughter of William Peck, moulder, in 1903.
▪ The only exception was among my childhood friends or old school classmates.
▪ Lenoir and Lehartel, childhood friends who attended different schools, were spending the day together.
▪ But after that he met up again with Olwen, a childhood friend.
▪ A childhood friend, Bob Jakin, who is now a packman, offers Tom and Maggie ten guineas he has earned.
▪ Some confessed, some made love, some slept exhausted and dreamed of childhood friends or long-forgotten moments with grandparents.
▪ Most live far from families and childhood friends.
home
▪ And so saying, he led me over the fields to his childhood home.
▪ For decades, townspeople thought his childhood home was a three-story rowhouse near the market square, now a porcelain shop.
▪ Most people have vivid memories of their first day at school and their childhood home.
▪ The true childhood home is roughly where the shuttered computer store stands, though the town has yet to acknowledge the mistake.
▪ Anxious to escape the limelight of dishonour, Cleave returns to live alone in his dilapidated childhood home.
▪ On the trip away from her childhood home, she let the maid get away with taking her golden drinking cup.
▪ Poor institutionalised Smike is taken by Nicholas and his sister to their childhood home in Devon.
leukaemia
▪ Subsequent studies have supported the hypothesis that population mixing can influence the incidence of childhood leukaemia.
▪ Introduction Evidence has mounted that the incidence of childhood leukaemia can be increased by population mixing, particularly in a rural area.
▪ In rural areas which had never before been exposed to the agent, an increase in childhood leukaemia cases resulted.
memory
▪ It is immediately noticeable that the great majority of comments come from the childhood memories.
▪ Patricia Polacco has won the hearts of millions of children with her rich stories drawn from childhood memories.
▪ InPart One the life stories are used only retrospectively, drawing on childhood memories of grandparents.
▪ But can I count as a reliable source my own childhood memories?
▪ The line back to childhood memories is elastic.
▪ He summoned up childhood memories and a long love for a part of his musical heritage in a piece called Blues Suite.
▪ They all still had secrets to keep, but some childhood memories were shared and Marc Robichaux's were among them.
▪ It very nearly is us: as personal and as deeply embedded as childhood memories of Christmas or school terms.
mortality
▪ Fetal, infant and early childhood mortality and maternity related deaths to women of reproductive age are the classes of mortality examined.
▪ And these patterns determine, at least inpart, the viability of the offspring, infant and childhood mortality conditions and maternal health.
▪ The husband's educational level also influences early childhood mortality.
sweetheart
▪ She had a very traditional ambition: to marry her childhood sweetheart.
▪ That was it; she stormed out, left Paris immediately, returned to Blackpool and married her childhood sweetheart.
▪ I've got my childhood sweetheart at last.
years
▪ My father's death by Thomas Rocke Obviously the death of my father impacted greatly upon my childhood years.
▪ There is nothing developmental linking the middle childhood years with fountain pens and mismatched socks.
▪ And that meant a lot to me at the time because all the paintings I was doing were subjects from my childhood years.
▪ The white frame home in which Gumm spent her childhood years still stands on the south edge of town along Highway 169.
▪ But maybe the day will come when they will resent the loss of their childhood years.
■ VERB
lose
▪ All of the children had to contribute and to some extent we lost our childhood.
▪ Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.
recall
▪ Perhaps such physical dependence is not unwelcome, recalling memories of childhood which are tender and warm.
remember
▪ I don't feel poor - not when I remember our childhood! - but of course I am by her standards.
▪ When remembering childhood experiences, who recalls third-grade reading, after all?
▪ We all remember episodes from our childhood so plainly.
▪ If Fanshawe and I eventually had our differences, what I remember most about our childhood is the passion of our friendship.
▪ When the smell was pure oak, I remembered childhood woods; in fact one particular place in one particular wood.
▪ She remembers her early childhood in the village of Chakowa as idyllic.
▪ But then I remembered my own childhood and the crazes we all went through.
▪ I remember my childhood, my adolescence.
spend
▪ Unless some one had been prepared to take the risk, she might have spent her childhood in institutions.
▪ Scott spent his early childhood living with his parents in a one-room shack in a rural area outside of Tacoma.
▪ He spent his childhood in Lincoln and left school at 16 to join his father's jewellery shop.
▪ The white frame home in which Gumm spent her childhood years still stands on the south edge of town along Highway 169.
▪ She explained to us that she had spent her childhood in a village near Irkutsk.
▪ Flynn grew up in this country; he was born and spent his childhood right here in Rock Creek.
▪ As we drank our wine, Pumblechook reminded me of the happy times he and I had spent together during my childhood.
▪ In any case, I wanted to get a glimpse of the street on which I had spent my childhood.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sheltered life/childhood/upbringing etc
▪ I lead a sheltered life out in the branch.
▪ Listen honey, d' you think I lead a sheltered life?
▪ We led a sheltered life out there in the suburbs.
▪ What a sheltered life she leads, in her self-built lavender ghetto.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His early childhood was spent with his father in Chicago.
▪ It was his childhood dream to play professional baseball.
▪ Much of my early childhood was spent with my aunt in California.
▪ Nina had happy memories of her childhood on the farm.
▪ Of course, I had all the usual childhood illnesses, like measles and mumps.
▪ Since childhood Margot had longed to be a dancer.
▪ Steven had happy memories of his childhood on the farm.
▪ They've been buddies since childhood.
▪ Vince had a very unhappy childhood.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He says Ryan has been a tinkerer since childhood, endlessly curious about the way things work.
▪ Information on childhood history, family, peer and work experiences was obtained, as well as detailed information on current circumstances.
▪ It all comes from a good childhood.
▪ The adults had retreated from this childhood world, but not very far.
▪ The origins of Gironella's peculiar assemblages lie in his childhood.
▪ There were no differences in the rates of complications after delivery or in childhood behavior problems.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Childhood

Childhood \Child"hood\ (ch[imac]ld"h[oo^]d), n. [AS. cildh[=a]d; cild child + -h[=a]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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
childhood

"period of life from birth to puberty," Old English cildhad; see child + -hood.

Wiktionary
childhood

n. (context uncountable English) The state of being a child.

WordNet
childhood
  1. n. the time of person's life when they are a child

  2. the state of a child between infancy and adolescence [syn: puerility]

Wikipedia
Childhood

Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, childhood consists of two stages: preoperational stage and concrete operational stage. In developmental psychology, childhood is divided up into the developmental stages of toddlerhood (learning to walk), early childhood (play age), middle childhood (school age), and adolescence (puberty through post-puberty). Various childhood factors could affect a person's attitude formation.

The concept of childhood emerged during the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly through the educational theories of the philosopher John Locke and the growth of books for and about children. Previous to this point, children were often seen as incomplete versions of adults.

Childhood (novel)

Childhood (, Detstvo) is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary.

It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.

Childhood is an exploration of the inner life of a young boy, Nikolenka, and one of the books in Russian writing to explore an expressionistic style, mixing fact, fiction and emotions to render the moods and reactions of the narrator.

Childhood (journal)

Childhood,, subtitled A journal of global child research, is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research in the field of childhood studies. It was established in 1993 and is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Norwegian Centre for Child Research. The journal's editors-in-chief are Leena Alanen ( University of Jyvaskyla), Daniel Thomas Cook ( Rutgers University), Virginia Morrow ( University of Oxford), and Olga Nieuwenhuys ( University of Amsterdam). It publishes theoretical and empirical research articles, reviews, and commentaries on children's social relations and culture, with an emphasis on their rights and generational position in society.

Childhood (disambiguation)

Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence.

Childhood may also refer to:

  • Childhood (novel), an 1852 novel by Leo Tolstoy
  • "Childhood" (Robin Hood), an episode of the BBC television series Robin Hood
  • Childhood (journal), an academic journal publishing research in the field of childhood studies
  • Childhood (band), an English rock band
  • "Childhood" (Michael Jackson song), 1995
  • Childhood (album), a 1981 album by Sylvia Chang
    • "Childhood", a 1981 eponymous song first sung by Sylvia Chang, later sung in Lo Ta-yu's 1983 album Zhi Hu Zhe Ye
Childhood (album)

Childhood is an album by Sylvia Chang, released in 1981 in Taiwan by Rock Records and in 1982 in Hong Kong by Fontana Records. It is Chang and Lo Ta-yu's second collaboration and Lo's first album as a producer. Within three years at China Medical University (Taiwan) before his graduation in 1979, Lo wrote songs of this album. Some songs, including the titular song of the same name, have been later sung by other singers, like the album's songwriter Lo and the Taiwanese singer Su Rui.

Childhood (band)

Childhood are an English rock band formed in 2010 in Nottingham by South Londoners Ben Romans-Hopcraft and Leo Dobsen whilst studying at the University of Nottingham.

The duo first gained attention after uploading a couple of demos online. After recruiting bassist Daniel Salamons and drummer Daniel Ajegbo, the band gigged around Nottingham before signing to / House Anxiety and released their debut single "Blue Velvet" in October 2012. Following the departure of Daniel Ajegbo and re-basing themselves in South London, the band recruited Jonny Williams and released second single "Solemn Skies" on 10 June 2013. The single was produced by Rory Attwell, formerly of Test Icicles.

The band released their debut album "Lacuna" on 11 August 2014. Produced by Dan Carey, the album was preceded by the single "Falls Away" in June.

On 24 April 2015, the band revealed that Thomas Tomaski was now the band's bass player - despite updating the band's lineup information on their Facebook page the band have not commented on nor confirmed the departure of Daniel Salamons.

Usage examples of "childhood".

It was these frequent glimmerings of the man underneath the childhood he was shucking that swept Angevine with true passion for him, that stained her vague parental warmth with something more hard and base and breathless.

Consequently, his relations to the wooers are newly exacerbated, particularly with Antinous, the most intimidating of the lot, who is only a little older than Telemachus but just old enough actually to remember Odysseus from his own childhood.

There are in the modern world an admirable class of persons who really make protest on behalf of that antiqua pulchritudo of which Augustine spoke, who do long for the old feasts and formalities of the childhood of the world.

Two days ago she had awoken with the glum realization that this was the last full day she would spend in her childhood home.

Satan here held his Babylonish court, and in the blood of stainless childhood the leprous limbs of phosphorescent Lilith were laved.

For childhood Balder is not dead, and Hela gives Again her prey us often as a child is born.

Yet our understanding of undisclosed childhood sexual abuse and its long-term effects is limited in regard to gender difference and behavioral outcomes.

Venerable Orsola Benincasa, whose sixteenth-century childhood was visited by innumerable misinterpreted ecstasies, she might have been bruised black-and-blue, pricked with needles, and burned with exposed flames to rouse her.

As she stepped across the doorsill she thought of an old ballad her own mother had sung in her childhood, of how, at night, the birds talked among themselves when no human creature was near.

Many of the tales of the weird, horrifying, and supernatural written by Bradbury are derived from his childhood fears and are set in midwestern Waukegan.

Through my childhood, they had been on display in a breakfront at Tealing, hardly ever used.

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and stood there for a moment thinking about Max, thinking of the hell his childhood must have been - with no mother, the boys of Come Lucky making fun of him and tying him on to broncs and bulls, having their own cruel stampede, and then the boy killed and a girl crying Rape and the town trying to lynch him.

Through the days of their childhood they were inseparable, roaming the lanes between Ballybay and Carrickmacross, the daring Sean leading the wide-eyed Jamie into scrapes and adventures and pranks.

The triumvirate of childhood plagues a freckled carrottop with a dimple.

PREFACE CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE CASANOVA AT DUX An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons I The Memoirs of Casanova, though they have enjoyed the popularity of a bad reputation, have never had justice done to them by serious students of literature, of life, and of history.