childhood
part of speech
noun (childhood, a childhood, childhoods)
meaning for a pupil
1) Childhood is the time of a person's life when they are a child. tree →
2) A childhood is the kind of life someone had as a child (a happy childhood). tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories and history, childhood memories explain who a character is; grown-ups often remember their childhood home, friends and games. In lessons about growing up, childhood comes before being a teenager and an adult. Phrases: in my childhood, childhood friend, childhood memories, early childhood, a happy childhood.
examples
- Grandma spent her childhood on a farm. tree →
- He had a happy childhood by the sea. tree →
- They have been best friends since childhood. tree →
- This song reminds Dad of his childhood. tree →
- Childhood is a time for playing and learning. tree →
- She wrote a book about her childhood in Ireland. tree →
- Doctors give children vaccines in early childhood. tree →
- That old teddy bear was my childhood toy. tree →
- "Have you been obliged to toil in this way from your childhood?" tree →
note
Mostly uncountable (in childhood), but countable for one person's kind of life (a hard childhood, their childhoods). Built from «child» + «-hood», like «neighbourhood». Spelt with one «d» before «h»: child-hood.
In the corpora
- Many parents tell a story from their own childhood to show that it happens to everyone.
- Bad sunburns in childhood raise the chance of skin cancer later in life.
- Many childhood injuries happen when children are bored and try risky things to pass the time.
- Sunburn in childhood raises the risk of skin cancer later in life.
- Grown-ups give these rules out of love and from their own childhood, and some are half right.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «childhood» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.