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prechildhood en · NOUN

Etymology

From pre- + childhood.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A period before childhood.
    • Shen's autobiography integrates bizarre aspects of his childhood and prechildhood into the first part of the text that covers the background of his birth or young childhood before his participation in the military. 1991, Wendy Larson, Literary Authority and the Modern Chinese Writer, page 66: