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boy·hood
/
ˈbɔɪ
hʊd
/
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[
boi
-h
oo
d
]
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noun
1.
the state or period of being a
boy
:
Boyhood is a happy time of life.
2.
boys
collectively:
the boyhood of America.
Origin:
1735–45;
boy
+
-hood
Related forms
pre·boy·hood,
noun
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boyhood
(ˈbɔɪhʊd)
—
n
the state or time of being a boy:
his boyhood was happy
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Example sentences
He began looking into the cost of having boxes shipped to him, in hopes that he
might have retained a
boyhood
letter.
It is in the early days of rollicking
boyhood
that the revelation first bursts
upon one, all in a day, as it were.
Finally the object was revealed: the mechanical baseball game that consumed
thousands of hours of my
boyhood
.
It is in the early days of rollicking
boyhood
that the revelation first bursts
upon one, all in a day, as it were.
One thing about his
boyhood
was peculiar: he hardly grew.
It reminds me of one of my first
boyhood
lessons in camaraderie.
He was catching his second breath, recovering his lost manhood, or
boyhood
.
His
boyhood
had been punctuated by dramatic examples of the unpredictability of human behavior and the role of accident in life.
More than the dialogue and the situation had dated: the moral climate was no longer that of my
boyhood
.
Such education as he gained in
boyhood
he received from his brother.
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