childhoods in English

noun

1

the state of being a child.

the idealized world of childhood

synonyms: youth, early years, early life, infancy, babyhood, boyhood, girlhood, prepubescence, minority, springtime of life, salad days, nonage, juvenescence

noun

• youth, early years, early life, infancy, babyhood, boyhood, girlhood, prepubescence, minority, springtime of life, salad days, nonage, juvenescence
• puerility

Use "childhoods" in a sentence

1. Synonyms for Boyhoods include adolescences, childhoods, teens, youths, juniorities, girlhoods, juvenescence, juvenilities, puberties and minorities

2. Synonyms for Caducities include senility, dotages, age, old age, second childhoods, senescence, elderliness, agedness, oldness and infirmities

3. Dr. Goertzel also cites young Albert [Einstein] and Thomas [Edison] as examples of youths who rose above dismal childhoods.

4. Young enough to have two good kids and get them grown and gone in time to have our own second childhoods.

5. Growing up within a tribal-like community, Israelis experience childhoods purposely shaped by challenges and risks—in a culture that encourages and rewards Chutzpah

6. We grown up kids box up all the junk from our childhoods—dusty ballet shoes, high school text books, rolled up posters of Adam Ant—and wonder where home went.

7. All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. Mitch Albom 

8. “Such stories are sometimes cited as evidence that they made the best of a bad thing, turning out well despite or because of their unhappy childhoods,” explains a report on happiness in the San Francisco Chronicle.