childhood vs maidenhood

childhood and maidenhood both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
childhood	Yes	No	No	No
maidenhood	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, maidenhood is a hyponym of childhood; that is, maidenhood is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than childhood:

Other hyponyms of childhood include girlhood, maidhood, boyhood.

childhood (noun)	maidenhood (noun)
the state of a child between infancy and adolescence	the childhood of a girl
the time of person's life when they are a child