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Plural of childhood

regular plural

The plural of childhood is childhoods.

Forms of childhood

Singularchildhood /ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/
Pluralchildhoods
Countablecountable and uncountable

Childhoods in a sentence

  • Both she and her husband were regular visitors during their childhoods and young adulthoods.2021 July 22, Amanda Loudin, “A beachgoer’s guide to the southernmost South Jersey Shore”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry young adulthood
  • We talk about fears rooted in our childhoods.2018, Travis Jeppesen, See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea, Hachette Books, →ISBN. From the entry cliffage
  • Lewis and his brother during their childhoods.2008, David Sobel, Childhood and Nature, Stenhouse Publishers, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry paracosmic
  • In Barnhouse's mind, their screwed-up childhoods have left homosexuals stalled at an adolescent point in the normal progression of psycho-social development.1977 December 10, Eric Rogers, “'Tolerant' Rhetoric Masks Anti-Gay Bias”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 23, page 13. From the entry stall
  • We had shared everything: clothes, childhoods, core memories, tears—but what we were experiencing now was unlike all the years that came before.2022, Emma Carey, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN. From the entry core memory

Meaning of childhood

  1. noun The state of being a child.
  2. noun The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
  3. noun The early stages of development of something.

Full definition of childhood

Questions about the plural of childhood

What is the plural of childhood?
The plural of childhood is childhoods.
Is childhood countable?
Childhood is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: childhood (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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