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# boyhood

«boyhood» in Mova's school dictionary: **a boy, from birth until he becomes a young man** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (boyhood, usually uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) The state of being a boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/#x1)
- Dad still talks about his boyhood in Belfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/#x2)
- Becoming a pilot was his boyhood dream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/#x3)
- We visited Mark Twain's boyhood home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/#x4)
- They had been friends since boyhood. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «boyhood» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boyhood/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.