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单词 second childhood
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second childhood

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noun

senility; dotage.

Origin of second childhood

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby second childhood

second baseman, second best, Second Birth, second blessing, second chamber, second childhood, second class, second-class citizen, Second Coming, Second Commandment, second consonant shift
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Example sentences from the Web for second childhood

  • They look like so many grandfathers in their second-childhood.

    Grandfather's Chair|Nathaniel Hawthorne

British Dictionary definitions for second childhood

second childhood

noun

dotage; 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 childhood

second 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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