| Childhood 1. (n.) The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. 2. (n.) Children, taken collectively. 3. (n.) The commencement; the first period. Thesaurus Entries adolescence, babyhood, beginnings, birth, boyhood, cradle, freshman year, genesis, girlhood, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, maidenhead, maidenhood, minority, nascence, nascency, nativity, origin, origination, parturition, pre-teens, pregnancy, puberty, subteens, teens, youth |