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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
boyhood
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb’s boyhood/childhood hero (=someone who was your hero when you were a boy/child)
▪ McEnroe had been one of his boyhood heroes.
sb’s childhood/boyhood etc home (=where you lived as a child)
▪ I had not been back to my childhood home for ten years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I spent my boyhood on a farm in Indiana.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it was a temporary setback that made him even more determined to achieve his boyhood dream.
▪ From a lonely boyhood to being left for dead in some alley, he had never looked to others for strength.
▪ Had Stark known from the beginning that the story of the upstate boyhood was all an invention?
▪ Hot Springs boasts of being Clinton's boyhood home and the village of Hope of being his birthplace.
▪ Instead they wanted to offer me their memories of my boyhood.
▪ It all looks as it looked in my boyhood, when I was back from school for the summer.
▪ Never again would classrooms and indeed whole schools in the West Riding be the bleak, barren places of my boyhood.
▪ Surreptitious observation had been a habit of his since boyhood, practiced first on wildlife and then on women.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boyhood

Boyhood \Boy"hood\, n. [Boy + -hood.] The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.
--Hood.

Wiktionary
boyhood

n. The state or period of being a boy.

WordNet
boyhood

n. the childhood of a boy

Wikipedia
Boyhood (novel)

Boyhood (, Otrochestvo) is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and followed by Youth. The novel was first published in the Russian literary journal Sovremennik in 1854.

Boyhood (film)

Boyhood is a 2014 American independent coming-of-age drama film, written and directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, and Ethan Hawke. Filmed from 2002 to 2013, Boyhood depicts the childhood and adolescence of Mason Evans, Jr. (Coltrane) from ages six to eighteen as he grows up in Texas with divorced parents (Arquette and Hawke). Richard Linklater's daughter Lorelei plays Mason's sister, Samantha.

Production began in 2002 and finished in 2013, with Linklater's goal to make a film about growing up. The project began without a completed script, with only basic plot points and the ending written initially. Linklater developed the script throughout production, writing the next year's portion of the film after rewatching the previous year's footage. He incorporated changes he saw in each actor into the script, while also allowing all major actors to participate in the writing process by incorporating their life experiences into their characters' stories.

Boyhood premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically on July 11, 2014. The film also competed in the main competition section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, where Linklater won the Silver Bear for Best Director. The film was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, winning Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Arquette. It also was nominated for five BAFTA awards, winning for Best Director and Best Film. Additionally, it was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Hawke and Best Supporting Actress for Arquette, which she won. In 2016, Metacritic named the film the most acclaimed of the 21st century so far. Boyhood is the only film in Metacritic history to achieve an aggregate score of 100 (ignoring re-releases and films with fewer than seven reviews).

Boyhood (disambiguation)

Boyhood is the state or period of being a boy.

Boyhood can also refer to:

  • Boyhood (novel), an 1854 novel by Leo Tolstoy
  • Boyhood (film), a 2014 film by Richard Linklater
  • Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, a 1997 book by South African-born author J. M. Coetzee

Usage examples of "boyhood".

It was not until adult life that from an abscess of the groin was expelled what remained of the spelling-book that had been driven into the abdomen during boyhood.

His friendship with Amir Bedawi went back fifteen years to their boyhood, though there were no obligations to either party in that timely association.

When Willett would mention some favourite object of his boyhood archaistic studies he often shed by pure accident such a light as no normal mortal could conceivably be expected to possess, and the doctor shuddered as the glib allusion glided by.

Much more, therefore, should Christ have been baptized or have taught in His boyhood.

It seemed to Myron a little strange that his two intimates in his boyhood town should not have been his own family, nor Herbert Lambkin, nor any of the lively ruffians with whom he had once loafed at the livery-stable, but two familiar strangers whom, as the baby Effie May and the aloof Ted Dingle, he had seen without knowing them.

But a number of the ladies, who were doubtless bored silly with the graves, exclaimed with delight and admiration over the lad, whose blond curls and chubby cheeks set him closer to infanthood than boyhood.

The extreme good looks of his boyhood had not faded, though they had become more manly-his nose, thank all the gods, had lengthened to a form properly, bumpily Roman, and saved him from a prettiness which would have been a great burden to one who so ardently desired to be everything a man should be-soldier, statesman, lover of women without suspicion that he was also a lover of men.

Three years followed, during which he passed through that state which immediately follows boyhood in all men's lives--a time when they are neither lads nor grown men, but youths passing from the one to the other period through what is often an uncouth and uncomfortable age.

Lipsitz, who had fitted my shoes during my entire boyhood, ordered spaghetti with pesto sauce from me as she stood chatting with Mr.

The days of total abstinence are a great improvement over those of unlicensed license, but there was a picturesque element about the rowdyism of our old Commencement days, which had a charm for the eye of boyhood.

It was unknightly to abuse a fallen foe, as he had learned in boyhood.

The letters of Camille Violand and the memories of his friends present to us the record of a vague and uneasy boyhood.

Could it be that two of the greatest villains in the destruction of the old assimilationist model that integrated my boyhood Mexican friends into an American outlook and expectation have been big government and big corporations, both entities that have no interest in local institutions?

Hope devotes so much serious and sympathetic study to the man called Tristram of Blent, a man who throughout burning boyhood thought of nothing but a silly old estate, we feel even in Mr.

The last-named touches on his boyhood in reminiscences of his first meeting with Rigby and his early friendship with Steve Thompson, but The Buln-buln and the Brolga gives no fewer than four complete glimpses of Tom, in the company of Steve and Fred, at different stages of his boyhood and adolescence.