| 单词 | second childhood |
| 释义 | second childhoodSEE SYNONYMS FOR second childhood ON THESAURUS.COM nounsenility; dotage. Origin of second childhoodFirst recorded in 1900–05 Words nearby second childhoodsecond baseman, second best, Second Birth, second blessing, second chamber, second childhood, second class, second-class citizen, Second Coming, Second Commandment, second consonant shift Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for second childhood
British Dictionary definitions for second childhoodsecond childhood noundotage; senility (esp in the phrases in his, her, etc, second childhood) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with second childhoodsecond childhood The dotage of old age; also, childlike playfulness in an adult. For example, Grandpa needs full-time care, now that he's in his second childhood, or Since he retired and started learning to fly, he's been in his second childhood. Depending on the context, this term may allude either to such problems of old age as losing one's mental or physical capacities or to delighting in new pleasures in a childlike fashion. [c. 1900] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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