"boy" | Definition and Related Words

boy

Noun

A youthful male person (synset 110305010)
"the baby was a boy"; "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"; "most soldiers are only boys in uniform"

is a type of: male, male person - a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
subtypes:
- 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
- cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy - a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
- catamite - a boy who submits to a sexual relationship with a man
- farm boy - a boy who has grown up on a farm
- fauntleroy, little lord fauntleroy - an excessively polite and well-dressed boy
- ploughboy, plowboy - a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow
- schoolboy - a boy attending school
- scout - a Boy Scout or Girl Scout
- shop boy - a young male shop assistant
same as: male child
A friendly informal reference to a grown man (synset 109890332)
"he likes to play golf with the boys"

is a type of: adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
subtypes:
- broth of a boy, broth of a man - an outstanding person; as if produced by boiling down a savory broth
- one of the boys - a man who has been socially accepted into a group of other men
A male human offspring (synset 110643436)
"their son became a famous judge"; "his boy is taller than he is"

is a type of: male offspring, man-child - a child who is male
subtypes:
- jnr, jr, junior - a son who has the same first name as his father
- mama's boy, mamma's boy, mother's boy - a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests
specific instances: esau - (Old Testament) the eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a mess of pottage

same as: son

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