"early childhood" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: early childhoods [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} early childhood (usually uncountable, plural early childhoods)
  1. (chiefly uncountable, psychiatry, sociology) A stage in human development, generally including toddlerhood and some time afterwards. Tags: uncountable, usually Derived forms: early childhood education Translations (stage including toddlerhood and some time afterwards): 兒童早期 /儿童早期 (értóng zǎoqī) (Chinese Mandarin), varhaislapsuus (Finnish), petite enfance [feminine] (French), luath-óige [feminine] (Irish), 幼少期 (yōshōki) (alt: ようしょうき) (Japanese), wczesne dzieciństwo [neuter] (Polish), ра́ннее де́тство (ránneje détstvo) [neuter] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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