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| Main Entry: | childhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of being young |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, babyhood, cradle, immaturity, infancy, minority, nonage, nursery, puberty, youth, juniority, juvenility, pupilage, schooldays, teens, tender age |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
| 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, bloom, boyhood, childhood, ignorance, immaturity, innocence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days*, awkward age, girlhood, greenness, inexperience, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | maturity, adulthood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boyhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, childhood, juniority, schoolboy days, teens, young manhood |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
| Main Entry: | upbringing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rearing |
| Synonyms: | childhood, instruction, training |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of animate existence |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, boyhood, childhood, dotage, infancy, life, lifetime, majority, maturity, middle age, milestone, old age, senility, seniority, wear and tear*, youth, adulthood, elderliness, girlhood |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minority |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | the time before one is of legal age |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, childhood, immaturity, youth, pubescence, youthfulness |
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