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SCHOOLBOY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A boy attending school
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("schoolboy" is a kind of...):
boy; male child (a youthful male person)
pupil; school-age child; schoolchild (a young person attending school (up through senior high school))
Context examples:
Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on the panels; children kept shop upon the steps; the schoolboy had tried his knife on the mouldings; and for close on a generation, no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to repair their ravages.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
There’s too much of the schoolboy in me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“With what intense desire she wants her home,” was continually on her tongue, as the truest description of a yearning which she could not suppose any schoolboy's bosom to feel more keenly.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Peter was a hard, wiry, brown faced, country-bred lad who looked on the coming war as the schoolboy looks on his holidays.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It appeared so long, since I had been a schoolboy there, that I wondered the place was so little changed, until I reflected how little I was changed myself.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He was alive, painfully alive, to the great universal things, and yet he was compelled to potter and grope among schoolboy topics and debate whether or not he should study Latin.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Alleyne had lingered for an instant in the passage, and as he did so there came a wild outcry from a chamber upon the left, and out there ran Aylward and John, laughing together like two schoolboys who are bent upon a prank.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the meanwhile, you must try to look at it from a new point of view, and not as a schoolboy.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
