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boyhood Definition

boy·hood (-ho̵od′)

noun

  1. the state or time of being a boy
  2. boys collectively
boyhood Synonyms

boyhood

n.

schoolboy days, growing years, formative period, adolescence; see childhood, youthchildhood, youth 1.

boyhood Usage Examples

Possessives

  • dream: The Big Match was the answer to every boyhood's dreams.

Adjective modifier

  • early: We traced him from his early boyhood to the time of the sighting.
  • own: He was on the point of advancing some profitable reflections on this head, but the memory of his own boyhood checked him.

Modifies a noun

  • hero: Then the clichés about playing for boyhood heroes came spilling out.
  • dream: Photo: Will Potter's boyhood dream come true!
  • ambition: Lang's original boyhood ambition in Vienna was to be an architect.
  • friend: The two men will almost certainly have been boyhood friends.
  • days.: He knew it from boyhood days. He knew the local waters which is important, if you raid a town.
  • memory: I used my boyhood memories to find our way around the town.
boyhood Quotes

Iown Ilike definiteforminwhat myeyesaretorest upon; and if landscapes were sold, likethe sheets of characters of my boyhood, one penny plain and twopence coloured, I should go the length of twopence every day of my life.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

In ancient shadows and twilights Where childhood had strayed, The world's great sorrows were born And its heroes were made. In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

—Russell, GeorgeWilliam pseudonym  Ó

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