boyhood

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: boy=hood

CIDE DICTIONARY

boyhood, n. [Boy + -hood.].

 The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.  Hood.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

boyhood

babyhood, childhood, childkind, children, girlhood, kids, little kids, maidenhead, maidenhood, new generation, pre-teens, rising generation, small fry, subteens, tots, young, young blood, young fry, young people, youth

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boyhood

Youth

N youth, juvenility, juvenescence, juniority, infancy, babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood, incunabula, minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom, cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage, prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life, heyday of youth, school days, rising generation, young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens, in statu pupillari, younger, junior, hebetic, unfledged, youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm, youth a the glad season of life.