childhood

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UK /ˈtʃaɪldhʊd/US /ˈtʃaɪldhʊd/

Meaning

noun
the period of somebody’s life when they are a child
childhood, adolescence, and adulthood

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When I learned, some years ago, that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful, I began to think about how I could invent horrible things my parents

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And she's exceptional, but I think she's not, so to speak, exceptional in the whole of childhood.

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I spent a very happy childhood there, and I was just an ordinary boy.

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