Childhood
Childhood (chīld"hod) , noun
[Anglo-Saxon cildhād; cild child + -hād. 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.
2.
Children, taken collectively. [Rare]
The well-governed childhood of this realm.
3.
The commencement; the first period.
The childhood of our joy.
Collocations (1)
Second childhood , the state of being feeble and incapable from old age.