BOYHOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boyhood mean? 

• BOYHOOD (noun)
  The noun BOYHOOD has 1 sense:

1. the childhood of a boy

  Familiarity information: BOYHOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOYHOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The childhood of a boy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("boyhood" is a kind of...):

childhood (the time of person's life when they are a child)

Derivation:

boy (a youthful male person)

 Context examples 

It was a cheery companion, gurgling and chuckling as it ran, like the dear old trout-stream in the West Country where I have fished at night in my boyhood.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had visited it frequently during my boyhood.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Oh, Agnes, sister of my boyhood, if I had known then, what I knew long afterwards—!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In fact, in his boyhood, before he had been named Beauty by his fellows, he had been called "Pinhead."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She knew Martin was poor, and his condition she associated in her mind with the boyhood of Abraham Lincoln, of Mr. Butler, and of other men who had become successes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As for me, I had sprung to the side of the old friend of my boyhood, and was trying to tell him my joy at his good fortune, and listening to his assurance that nothing that could ever befall him could weaken the love that he bore me.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some turn in the road, some new object suddenly perceived and recognised, reminded me of days gone by, and were associated with the lighthearted gaiety of boyhood.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I cannot say at what stage of my grief it first became associated with the reflection, that, in my wayward boyhood, I had thrown away the treasure of her love.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His expression was full of spirit and confidence, and he wore a grim sort of half-smile which I had seen many a time in our boyhood, and which meant, I knew, that his pride had set iron hard, and that his senses would fail him long before his courage.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I said he was my dearest friend, the protector of my boyhood, and the companion of my prime.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)