How do I Say and Write
"Childhood" in German?

Pronunciation : Child"hood
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [AS. cildhad; cild child + -had. See Child, and hood.]
Definition : 1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. I have walked before you from my childhood. 1. Sam. xii. 2.

2. Children, taken collectively. [R.] The well-governed childhood of this realm. Sir. W. Scott.

3. The commencement; the first period. The childhood of our joy. Shak. Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable from old age.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913