| NOUN | person | male child, boy | a youthful male person |
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| Meaning | A youthful male person. | |
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| Synonym | boy | |
| Narrower | Fauntleroy, Little Lord Fauntleroy | An excessively polite and well-dressed boy |
| 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 |
| Opposite | female child, girl, little girl | A youthful female person |
| Spanish | chaval, chico, garzón, jovencito, joven, mozo, muchacho, niño, niño varón | |
| Catalan | al·lot, criatura, infant, marrec, menut, nen, noi, vailet, xic, xicot, xiquet | |
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