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English word

childhood

B1Frequent NGSL-2
UK /ˈtʃaɪldhʊd/US /ˈtʃaɪldhʊd/
noun

the period of somebody’s life when they are a child

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

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