| Main Entry: | childhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of being young |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, babyhood, cradle, immaturity, infancy, juniority, juvenility, minority, nonage, nursery, puberty, pupilage, schooldays, teens, tender age, youth |
Antonyms: |
adulthood |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of animate existence |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, adulthood, boyhood, childhood, dotage, elderliness, girlhood, infancy, life, lifetime, majority, maturity, middle age, milestone, old age, senility, seniority, wear and tear, youth |
| Notes: | epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time |
| Main Entry: | babyhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of infancy |
Synonyms: |
childhood, diaper days, infanthood |
Antonyms: |
adolescence, adulthood |
| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
Antonyms: |
adulthood, maturity |
| Main Entry: | boyhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, childhood, juniority, schoolboy days, teens, young manhood |
Antonyms: |
adulthood |
| Main Entry: | minority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the time before one is of legal age |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, childhood, immaturity, pubescence, youth, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | upbringing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rearing |
Synonyms: |
childhood, instruction, training |
| Main Entry: | infancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | babyhood |
Synonyms: |
beginning, childhood, immaturity, inception, incunabulum, minority, nonage, outset, pupilage, start |
Antonyms: |
old age |
| Main Entry: | nonage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
Synonyms: |
childhood, immaturity, infancy |
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, juvenility, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |