- infancia
- f.1 childhood (periodo).tuvo una infancia muy feliz she had a very happy childhooddesde su más tierna infancia from early childhoodun amigo de la infancia a childhood friend2 children (todos los niños).la salud de la infancia (plural) children's health3 infancy, childhood, babyhood, boyhood.* * *infancia► nombre femenino1 (de una persona - gen) childhood; (- primera parte) infancy2 (de un proyecto etc) infancy3 (los niños) children plural\FRASEOLOGÍAprimera infancia infancy* * *SF1) [de una persona] childhood; [de proyecto, teoría] infancy
es un amigo de la infancia — he's a childhood friend
en mi infancia nunca tuve juguetes — as a child I never had toys
en su más tierna infancia — in his tenderest youth liter o hum
la investigación genética se halla todavía en su infancia — genetic research is still in its infancy
jardíndurante la infancia de la humanidad — in mankind's infancy
2) (=niños) childrenDía Internacional de la Infancia — International Children's Day
* * *femenino (período) childhoodla democracia aquí está todavía en su infancia — democracy is still in its infancy here
* * *= childhood, infancy, babyhood.Ex. Any funeral scene in a story inevitably conjures in myself memories of my childhood spent as the son of an undertaker.Ex. For some time after infancy many children continue to regard books as they regard their toys, as objects to be played with and looked at rather than read.Ex. The author offers a rich variety of detailed descriptions and anecdotes on the development of children of both sexes from babyhood to adolescence.----* atención a la infancia = child care [childcare].* biblioteca de jardín de infancia = kindergarten library.* en su infancia = in + Posesivo + infancy.* jardín de infancia = kindergarten, nursery.* primera infancia = babyhood, early childhood.* UNICEF [Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia] = UNICEF [United Nation's International Children's Emergency Fund].* * *femenino (período) childhoodla democracia aquí está todavía en su infancia — democracy is still in its infancy here
* * *= childhood, infancy, babyhood.Ex: Any funeral scene in a story inevitably conjures in myself memories of my childhood spent as the son of an undertaker.
Ex: For some time after infancy many children continue to regard books as they regard their toys, as objects to be played with and looked at rather than read.Ex: The author offers a rich variety of detailed descriptions and anecdotes on the development of children of both sexes from babyhood to adolescence.* atención a la infancia = child care [childcare].* biblioteca de jardín de infancia = kindergarten library.* en su infancia = in + Posesivo + infancy.* jardín de infancia = kindergarten, nursery.* primera infancia = babyhood, early childhood.* UNICEF [Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia] = UNICEF [United Nation's International Children's Emergency Fund].* * *infanciafeminine1 (período) childhooden mi más tierna infancia when I was a little child, in my tender infancy (liter)el pobre está en su segunda infancia the poor man is in his second childhoodla vuelta a la infancia the return to childhood o infancyla democracia aquí está todavía en la infancia democracy is still in its infancy here* * *
infancia sustantivo femenino (período) childhood
infancia sustantivo femenino childhood, infancy
'infancia' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
calamidad
- jardín
- mundial
- recuerdo
- de
English:
childhood
- infancy
- kindergarten
- nursery school
- playgroup
- root
- abuse
- NSPCC
- nursery
- preschool
- SPCC
* * *infancia nf1. [periodo] childhood;tuvo una infancia muy feliz she had a very happy childhood;se interesó por la música desde su más tierna infancia he was interested in music from early childhood;se casó con un amigo de la infancia she married a childhood friend2. [todos los niños] children;la salud de la infancia children's health* * *infanciaf childhood; figinfancy* * *infancia nf1) niñez: infancy, childhood2) : children pl3) : beginnings pl* * *infancia n childhood
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.