babyhood

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the period of a person's life when they are a baby; infancy

   The family album followed her from babyhood through her first years at school.

2. 2
   noun

   the earliest stage in the development of something

   The technology was still in its babyhood when the first trials began.

Formed from baby + -hood. The suffix descends from Old English hād, 'state, condition, or rank,' and makes babyhood literally the state or period of being a baby.

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