English > boy: 3 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A youthful male person. |
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| Examples | - "the baby was a boy"
- "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"
- "most soldiers are only boys in uniform"
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| Synonym | male child |
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| Narrower | Fauntleroy, Little Lord Fauntleroy | An excessively polite and well-dressed boy |
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| Scout | A Boy Scout or Girl Scout |
| altar boy | A boy serving as an acolyte |
| ball boy | A boy who retrieves balls for tennis players |
| bat boy | (baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment |
| catamite | A boy who submits to a sexual relationship with a man |
| cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy | A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) |
| farm boy | A boy who has grown up on a farm |
| plowboy, ploughboy | A boy who leads the animals that draw a plow |
| schoolboy | A boy attending school |
| shop boy | A young male shop assistant |
| Broader | male, male person | A person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies |
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| Opposite | female child, girl, little girl | A youthful female person |
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| Spanish | chaval, chico, garzón, jovencito, joven, mozo, muchacho, niño, niño varón |
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| Catalan | al·lot, criatura, infant, marrec, menut, nen, noi, vailet, xic, xicot, xiquet |
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| Nouns | boyhood | the childhood of a boy |
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