toddlerhoodとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From toddler +‎ -hood (suffix forming nouns denoting conditions または states of being).^[1]

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒdl̩əhʊd/, /ˈtɒdləhʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑd(ə)lɚˌhʊd/
• ハイフネーション: todd‧ler‧hood

名詞

toddlerhood (usually uncountable, 複数形 toddlerhoods)

1. (countable) The period of one's life in which one is a toddler (“a young child who has started walking but not fully mastered it, typically between one かつ three years old”). [from early 20th c.]

   Synonym: toddlerdom

   We’ve been friends ever since toddlerhood.

   • 1937, E[leanor] Joyce Partridge [et al.], The Management of Early Infancy, London: C[harles] W[illiam] Daniel, OCLC 12252062, page 25:

     [T]he stage at which mother showed herself to her infant in her true colours was whilst breast feeding was still going on, and any difficulties that belonged to toddlerhood had their roots reaching back to this stage.

   • 2014 December 20, Rebecca Ley, “City versus country childhoods”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, ISSN 0261-3077, OCLC 229952407, archived from the original on 28 April 2021:

     And, like most boring mothers, I fret about schools. Where I grew up, everyone went to the nearest village primary school and the local comprehensive. But here, since the earliest days of Isobel’s toddlerhood, my friends and acquaintances have been engaged in an arms race.

2. (uncountable) The state of being a toddler. [from early 20th c.]

上位語

• childhood

等位語

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