Childhood Synonyms and Antonyms

chīldho͝od
Period of being young
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. infancy
  2. youth
  3. juniority
  4. minority
  5. juvenility
  6. immaturity
  7. nonage
  8. pupilage
  9. puerility
  10. adolescence
  11. girlhood
  12. boyhood
  13. school-days
  14. babyhood
  15. childishness
  16. nursery days
  17. descendants
  18. dotage
  19. the cradle
  20. impuberty
  21. teens
  22. puberty
  23. infantility
  24. tender age
  25. juvenilia
  26. early years
  27. growing years
  28. pubescence
  29. pediatrics
  30. posterity
  31. progeny
  32. puerilism
Antonyms:
  1. adulthood
  2. maturity
  3. declining years

Words Related to Childhood

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. early-childhood
  2. early-life
  3. schooldays

Childhood Sentence Examples

  • Josh had been her childhood playmate.

  • This brings back childhood memories.

  • His childhood was passed in dire poverty.

  • Josh had left childhood behind long ago and this little frolic in the snow probably looked anything but innocent to him.

  • It took her mind back to childhood memories of barefoot strolls down dusty lanes.

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