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# babyhood

noun (babyhood — uncountable)

«babyhood» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Babyhood is the time in your life when you are a baby, usually the first year or two. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babyhood/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science and personal lessons about the human life cycle: babyhood, childhood, adolescence (the teenage years), adulthood, old age. In everyday life and stories it describes memories, photos and toys from when you were a baby.

### Examples

- Most people cannot remember their babyhood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babyhood/#x1)
- These photos show my babyhood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babyhood/#x2)
- In babyhood we learn to sit, crawl and stand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babyhood/#x3)
- Babyhood comes before childhood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babyhood/#x4)
- The bear kept his blanket from babyhood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babyhood/#x5)
- During babyhood, babies sleep for most of the day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babyhood/#x6)

### Note

Uncountable. Made from «baby» + «-hood» (a state or time of life), like childhood, adulthood. Spelled «babyhood» (the y stays).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «babyhood» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/babyhood/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«babyhood» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/babyhood.html) on Mova free.