AFRICA

 

Childhood

noun: childhood; plural noun: childhoods

1. the state or period of being a child.

   "He spent his childhood in Lewes."

   synonyms: youth, early years, early days, early life, infancy, babyhood, boyhood, girlhood, pre-teens, prepubescence, adolescence, teens, teenage years, young adulthood, immaturity; the springtime of life, one's salad days; minority; rare nonage, juvenility, juniority, juvenescence.