Synonyms of boyhood

boyhood

noun

as in childhood

Related Words

• childhood
• girlhood
• toddlerhood
• adolescence
• youth
• minority
• springtime
• nonage
• infancy
• immaturity
• babyhood
• juvenility
• juvenescence

Dissimilar Words

• adulthood
• majority
• winter
• midlife
• middle age
• sunset
• senectitude

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of boyhood

Whitehead plumbed his boyhood fondness for horror movies in Zone One (2011), a zombie apocalypse novel set in a post-9/11 lower Manhattan in the wake of a pandemic. — Literary Hub, 28 July 2026

Kane moved from boyhood club Tottenham Hotspur to Bayern Munich in 2023 and has become one of the most successful strikers in the history of the club. — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 July 2026

The former 9-time AL base-stealing champ and 9-time gold glover resides in his boyhood home of Barquisimeto, Venezuela. — Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

But Toney isn’t awestruck, nor too afraid to speak up to the guy who once manned the middle of his boyhood team’s defense. — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 9 July 2026

The series depicts the anguish of an interrupted boyhood and the awakening of a child’s conscience as their safest spaces erode. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 July 2026

If the first eight steps, rising amid the site’s oak and maple trees, can be viewed as his birth and boyhood in the state, those at the summit reflect his later years of anguish and trial. — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 2 July 2026

There was Mendoza, where Godoy Cruz played; Bahía Blanca, home of Olimpo; Rosario, where both Ángel Di María’s Central and Messi’s boyhood club, Newell’s Old Boys, were crosstown rivals. — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 27 June 2026