enfance

Meaning

childhood

Concepts

childhood

infancy

babyhood

boyhood

child

🧒

early childhood

girlhood

offspring

puerility

upbringing

deprived children

tender age

personal history

child’s play

Synonyms

petite enfance

adolescence

jeunesse

enfant

🧒

enfants

jeune âge

môme

🧒

pédophilie

petitesse

première enfance

première période

croissance

descendance

progéniture

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɑ̃.fɑ̃s/

Etymology

Inherited from Old French enfance, borrowed from Latin īnfāntia, from īnfāns (“unable to speak”).

Sentences

Il passe son enfance à Pont-d’Ucel ou ses parents sont instituteurs .

He spent his childhood in Pont-d'Ucel where his parents were teachers.

Il passe son enfance dans une colonie japonaise installée à Busan en Corée .

He spent his childhood in a Japanese settlement in Busan, Korea.

Francis Mallmann passe son enfance à Bariloche, en Patagonie , où son père travaille .

Francis Mallmann spent his childhood in Bariloche, Patagonia, where his father worked.