少年時代(しょうねんじだい)

しょうねんじだい
noun
boyhood; one's boyhood years
time-period
1. boyhood; one's boyhood years
The period of a person's life from later childhood into the early teens, looked back on as a stage. Strictly it refers to a boy's youth, but it is also used loosely for childhood in general, especially in reminiscence and biography.
少年時代(しょうねんじだい)を思(おも)い出(だ)す。
To remember one's boyhood.
父(ちち)は少年時代(しょうねんじだい)を北海道(ほっかいどう)で過(す)ごした。
My father spent his boyhood in Hokkaido.
少年時代(しょうねんじだい)に読(よ)んだ一冊(いっさつ)の本(ほん)が、その後(ご)の人生(じんせい)を決(き)めたと語(かた)っている。
He says that a single book he read in boyhood determined the rest of his life.

少年(しょうねん) (boy, youth) + 時代(じだい) (era, period of life). The pattern noun + 時代(じだい) is productive for life stages: 学生(がくせい)時代(じだい) (student days), 子供(こども)時代(じだい) (childhood).

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Compare: 幼少期(ようしょうき) (early childhood)
Compare: 青春時代(せいしゅんじだい) (one's youth)
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