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schoolboy

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1. schoolboy - Noun

2. schoolboy - Adjective

Meaning

A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. Ernest Renan

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. Will McDonough

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." Mark Twain

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams. Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point. Henry Adams

Dior is like a big adolescent with old- fashioned shyness of as schoolboy and most charming in his childish awkwardness. Christian Dior

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