Childhood /(chīld"ho͝od)/

Child·hood

Childhood

n.
  1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
    I have walked before you from my childhood.
    — 1. Sam. xii. 2.
  2. Children, taken collectively. [R.]
    The well-governed childhood of this realm.
    — Sir. W. Scott.
  3. The commencement; the first period.
    The childhood of our joy.

Phrases & Compounds
Second childhood
the state of being feeble and incapable from old age.