childhood

childhood
n.

1) to spend one's childhood (somewhere)

2) one's second childhood

3) in one's childhood

4) since childhood

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['tʃaɪldhʊd]
in one's childhood
one's second childhood
since childhood
to spend one's childhood (somewhere)

Combinatory dictionary. 2013.

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