Significado de boyhood en inglés

boyhood

noun [ C or U ]

/ˈbɔɪ.hʊd/ us

/ˈbɔɪ.hʊd/

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the period when a person is a boy, and not yet a man, or the state of being a boy:

I had a very happy boyhood.

The transition from boyhood to manhood can be a confusing period.

It was his boyhood ambition/dream to become a film director.

James Bond was a boyhood hero of mine.

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childhood

childhoodMy childhood was spent moving from place to place as my father was in the army.
boyhoodHe remembered his boyhood as an idyllic period of his life.
girlhoodNot since her girlhood had she felt so free and uninhibited.
infancyMany more children used to die in infancy.
youthAt 25, he felt his youth was already coming to an end.

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(Definición de boyhood del Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

boyhood | Diccionario de Inglés Americano

boyhood

noun [ U ]

/ˈbɔɪ·hʊd/

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the time when someone was a boy:

Much of his boyhood was spent in Europe.

(Definición de boyhood del Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Ejemplos de boyhood

boyhood

The other five volumes, about parenthood, adolescence, girlhood, boyhood, and infancy, serve as supplements and constraints on what the editors have chosen to emphasize here.

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So this unknown, dead author's work rather drew my boyhood imagination - to see universal man.

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Evidence from a boyhood friend supported this viewpoint.

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And he can never have questioned, from boyhood onwards, that at a pinch there was always someone nearby with whom he could find a home.

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Reading and books were social markers that set him apart in boyhood.

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He was 'a boyhood hero' who became a friend and colleague.

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But there is a mournful undertone as well: a lost boyhood made equivalent to its lost urban community.

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She also begins to understand the link between land and family, the reasons why her father is so attached to the place of his boyhood.

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Chaplin recalled how common illiterate people were in the pit villages of his boyhood.

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Howitt treats birds' -nesting as innate to boys and inseparable from boyhood.

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In popular late nineteenth-century works that blurred factual historical narratives with fictional figures and boyhood heroes, the myth left a discernible impression on many authors and their readership.

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I found his researches very informative and thought his boyhood recollections were agreeable.

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It is one that t have known from boyhood.

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My first principle in life since boyhood has been never to look a gift horse in the mouth.

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I have been an engineer from my boyhood.

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（男子的）孩童時期，少年時代…

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