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cradlehood

cradlehood noun: infancy.

Noun

cradlehood (plural cradlehoods)

  1. infancy
    • In this Yarmouth as Maſter Camden ſaith, there were ſeauentie inhabitants, or houſholders, that payed ſcot and lot in the time of Edward the Confeſſor, but a Chronographycal Latine table, which they haue hanging vp in their Guild hall, of all their tranſmutations from their Cradlehoode, infringeth...1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 9

Forms of cradlehood

pluralcradlehoods

Origin of cradlehood

From cradle + -hood.

Questions about cradlehood

What does cradlehood mean?
Cradlehood means infancy.
What part of speech is cradlehood?
Cradlehood is a noun.
What is the plural of cradlehood?
The plural of cradlehood is cradlehoods.

Words near cradlehood in the dictionary

  1. cradleboard
  2. cradleboards
  3. cradled
  4. cradleful
  5. cradlefuls
  6. cradlehood
  7. cradlehoods
  8. cradleland
  9. cradlelands
  10. cradleless
  11. cradlelike

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