boyhood

Main Entry:
boyhood [boi-hood]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: youth
Synonyms: adolescence, childhood, juniority, schoolboy days, teens, young manhood
Antonyms: adulthood
Main Entry: age
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: period of animate existence
Synonyms: adolescence, adulthood, boyhood, childhood, dotage, elderliness, girlhood, infancy, life, lifetime, majority, maturity, middle age, milestone, old age, senility, seniority, wear and tear, youth
Notes: epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time
Main Entry: puberty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: young adulthood
Synonyms: adolescence, awkward stage, boyhood, girlhood, greenness, high-school years, juvenescence, juvenility, potency, preadolescence, pubescence, spring*, springtide, springtime, teenage years, teens, youth, youthfulness
Notes: adolescence is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood; puberty is the time of sexual development
Antonyms: adulthood
Main Entry: youth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: early period in life of animate being
Synonyms: adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness
Antonyms: adulthood, maturity
Main Entry: greenness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: youth
Synonyms: adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, juvenility, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness
Main Entry: juvenescence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: youth
Synonyms: adolescence, awkward age, bloom*, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenility, minority, prime*, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness
Main Entry: juvenility
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: youth
Synonyms: adolescence, awkward age, bloom*, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, minority, prime*, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness
Related Words
Main Entry: age
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, ancestral, anicular, anile, annotinous, annuated, antiquated, ayne, declining, decrepit, doited, effete, eigne, elder, eldest, epigonous, first, gerocomical, gray, gray, hoar, hoary, in years, insenescible, juvenescent, marked with a crow's foot, matronly, mellow, no chicken, of a certain age, old, old as Methuselah, older, oldest, past one's prime, patriarchal, quadragenarious, ripe, run to seed, senescent, senile, senior, silurian, stricken in years, superannuated, time, venerable, waning, wrinkled, years old
Main Entry: greenness
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
apple, bottle, chartreuse, earth, emerald, festucine, filemot, glaucous, grass, green as grass, greenish, hunter, olive, olive drab, pea, sage, sea, turquoise, verdant, vert, virent, virescent, viridescent
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