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noun ADJ. happy | deprived, difficult, lonely, traumatic, unhappy | normal | early From earliest childhood she'd had a love of dancing. | late His health remained poor into later childhood. VERB + CHILDHOOD have She had a very happy childhood. | spend He spent most of his childhood in Egypt. | survive Her second son didn't survive childhood. CHILDHOOD + NOUN days, years | dream, experience, fantasy, memories | friend, sweetheart | home | disease, illness, mortality PREP. during ~ He became diabetic during childhood. | from ~ She still retained many friends from childhood. | in ~ She died in childhood. | throughout ~ He travelled a lot throughout his childhood. PHRASES scenes from/of sb's childhood
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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childhood
adjectives
happy/unhappy
• Her parents divorced and her childhood was unhappy.
normal
• I think my childhood was fairly normal.
lonely
• He had no brothers or sisters and a lonely childhood.
a deprived childhood
(= without enough money, food, attention etc )
• Many children living in these areas have very deprived childhoods.
early/late childhood
• Experiences in early childhood are very important.
verbs
have a happy/unhappy etc childhood
• I wish I'd had a happy childhood like yours.
spend your childhood
• This is the house where the artist spent most of his childhood.
remember something from (your) childhood
• He remembered the place from his childhood.
childhood + NOUN
childhood memories
• The smell in the air brought back happy childhood memories.
a childhood friend
• He married his childhood friend.
somebody's childhood home
• Her childhood home was in North Dakota.
a childhood experience
• Our childhood experiences make us who we are.
a childhood illness/disease
• measles and other common childhood illnesses
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noun
youth:
My childhood was a pleasant time.
Simple Definitions
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when you are young
childhood
the time when you are a child, especially a young child:
• I had a wonderful childhood in the country. • childhood illnesses
girlhood/boyhood
the time when you are a young girl or boy:
• The two men had been friends in boyhood. • the transition from girlhood to womanhood
youth
the time when you are young, especially between about 15 and 25 when you are no longer a child:
• He was a great sportsman in his youth. • She revisited all the places where she had spent her youth.
adolescence
the time when you are changing from being a child into an adult – used especially when you are talking about the problems people have at this age:
• During adolescence, boys are often lacking in self-confidence.
infancy
formal the time when you are a baby:
• In the past, many more babies died in infancy.
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