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