In his boyhood, Yasunari Kawabata took care of his grandfather.
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Boyhood
//ˈbɔɪˌhʊd//
Synonyms for "boyhood" (21 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Strong matches (6)
Related words (10)
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Translations
17 translations across 15 languages.
Assamese
1 entries- ল’ৰালি noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- کوڕێتی noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Esperanto
1 entries- knabeco noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Finnish
1 entries- poikuus noun (The state or period of being a boy)
French
2 entries- enfance noun (The state or period of being a boy)
- garçonnité noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Galician
1 entries- nenez noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Georgian
1 entries- სიყრმე noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Kazakh
1 entries- ересектік noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Macedonian
1 entries- момчештво noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- хлапцовство noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Polish
2 entries- chłopięctwo noun (The state or period of being a boy)
- lata chłopięce noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Portuguese
1 entries- meninice noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Russian
1 entries- о́трочество noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- дечаштво noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Spanish
1 entries- niñez noun (The state or period of being a boy)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
His boyhood experiences taught him what it was like to be poor.
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He was very naughty in his boyhood.
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They laughed at the photograph of my boyhood.
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