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# boyhood

noun (boyhood, usually uncountable)

«boyhood» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The time in a person's life when he is a boy, from birth until he becomes a young man. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/#m1)
2. The state of being a boy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/#m2)

### In the lessons

In history and stories, writers describe a famous man's boyhood: where he grew up and what he did. Phrases: boyhood home, boyhood dream, boyhood friend.

### Examples

- He spent his boyhood on a farm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/#x1)
- Dad still talks about his boyhood in Belfast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/#x2)
- Becoming a pilot was his boyhood dream. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/#x3)
- We visited Mark Twain's boyhood home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/#x4)
- They had been friends since boyhood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/#x5)
- In his boyhood he had already started on a journey, for his desire was to see foreign lands and strange people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/#x6)

### Note

Usually uncountable. Compare girlhood, childhood. «-hood» means a time or state, as in childhood, adulthood.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «boyhood» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«boyhood» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/boyhood.html) on Mova free.