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Definition: Early Childhood |
Early ChildhoodNoun1. The early stage of growth or development. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Early ChildhoodSynonyms: babyhood (n), infancy (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Early Childhood |
| English words defined with "early childhood": adult tooth, anal personality, anal retentive personality ♦ branched chain ketoaciduria ♦ DPT vaccine ♦ hereditary cerebellar ataxia ♦ infantile amaurotic idiocy ♦ maple syrup urine disease ♦ oral personality ♦ permanent tooth ♦ Sachs disease ♦ Tay-Sachs, Tay-Sachs disease ♦ Werdnig-Hoffman disease. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "early childhood": Alport syndrome ♦ continuing education ♦ Exostoses, Multiple Hereditary ♦ Feeding and Eating Disorders of Childhood, Fructose-1,6-Diphosphatase Deficiency ♦ Glycogen Storage Disease Type I, GORDON ♦ infantile nephrosis, infantile nephrotic syndrome ♦ lifelong education, lifelong learning ♦ Porokeratosis ♦ recurrent education. (references) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In her early childhood, she must have even been pretty. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | ALPS is a disorder that develops in early childhood. (references) | |
A rare form that usually causes symptoms in early childhood. (references) | ||
Hyperkalemic attacks often begin at an early age (infancy to early childhood). (references) | ||
Children | Portugal | During the year, the directorate initiated a program to coordinate assistance for children of immigrant families and a program to support early childhood, which includes the provision of better childcare facilities. (references) |
Belarus | As part of the Lukashenka regime's efforts to promote a union with Russia and to reduce the influence of opposition movements, the authorities continued to discourage the promotion of, or the teaching of, students in the Belarusian language by limiting the availability of early childhood education in Belarusian. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We need to prepare our children to read and succeed in school with improved Head Start and early childhood development programs. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
early childhood education | 827 |
early childhood | 374 |
early childhood development | 143 |
early childhood lesson plan | 58 |
early childhood curriculum | 56 |
early childhood intervention | 47 |
early childhood activity | 45 |
early childhood special education | 31 |
early childhood education journal | 27 |
early childhood resource | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "early childhood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | vuggestue (early childhood centre), Det paritetiske Forvaltningsudvalg for Dagcentret for mindre Børn (Joint Management Committee on the Early Childhood Centre), dagcenter for mindre boern (early childhood centre). (various references) | |
Dutch | Paritair Comigé van beheer voor het Kinderdagverblijf (Joint Management Committee on the Early Childhood Centre), kleutersterfte (early childhood mortality), kinderdagverblijf (after school child-minding service, early childhood centre). (various references) | |
French | WGECD (Working Group on Early Childhood Development), RADPE (Early Childhood Development Network for Africa), Réseau africain pour le développement de la petite enfance (Early Childhood Development Network for Africa), Groupe de travail sur le développement de la petite enfance (Working Group on Early Childhood Development), Conférence sur la protection et le développement de la petite enfance (Early Childhood Care and Development Conference), Comité paritaire de gestion du Centre de la petite enfance (Joint Committee on the Management of the Early Childhood Centre, Joint Management Committee of the Early Childhood Centre, Joint Management Committee on the Early Childhood Centre), centre de la petite enfance (early childhood centre), C.O.C.E.P.E. (Joint Management Committee of the Early Childhood Centre). (various references) | |
German | Paritaetischer Verwaltungsausschuss fuer die Kleinkindertagesstaette (Joint Management Committee on the Early Childhood Centre), Kleinkindertagesstaette (early childhood centre). (various references) | |
Greek | νηπιακός σταθμός (early childhood centre). (various references) | |
Italian | Comitato paritetico di gestione dell'asilo-nido (Joint Management Committee on the Early Childhood Centre), Comitato paritetico di gestione del Centro per l'infanzia (COCEPE, Joint Management Committee of the Early Childhood Centre), COCEPE (COCEPE, Joint Management Committee of the Early Childhood Centre), asilo-nido (early childhood centre). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 幼児教育 (early childhood education). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ようじきょういく (early childhood education). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earlyay ildhoodchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | jardim de infância (day care centre, day nursery, early childhood centre, kindergarten). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-h-h-i-l-l-o-o-r-y" | |
-4 letters: heroically, holohedral. | |
-5 letters: aldehydic, childhood, choroidal, coralloid, cordially, hardihood, holidayed, holidayer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 61 72 6C 79 43 68 69 6C 64 68 6F 6F 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100001 01110010 01101100 01111001 00100000 01000011 01101000 01101001 01101100 01100100 01101000 01101111 01101111 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E a r l y   C h i l d h o o d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0061 0072 006C 0079 0043 0068 0069 006C 0064 0068 006F 006F 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39678478912377475787074818170 |
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