boy
IPA: bˈɔɪ
noun
- A young male human.
- (particularly) A male child or adolescent, as distinguished from an infant or adult.
- (diminutive) A son of any age.
- (endearing, diminutive) A male human younger than the speaker.
- (obsolete) A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.
- (now rare and usually offensive outside some Commonwealth nations) A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee
- A younger such worker.
- (historical or offensive) A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.
- (obsolete) A male camp follower.
- (now offensive) Any non-white male, regardless of age.
- A male non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male dog.
- (historical, military) A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- (somewhat childish) A male (tree, gene, etc).
verb
- (transitive) To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage).
adjective
- (education) Initialism of beginning of year.
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Examples of "boy" in Sentences
- Young boys are scamps.
- The young boy is immature.
- Jose was the eldest child in the brood of three boys.
- The young boy does not know how to punctuate properly.
- One of the young is too greedy and flies off with the boy.
- She carries the baby to term, but the child is a stillborn boy.
- The monks raise the child, and Marcelino grows into a rowdy young boy.
- According to the sheriff's son, the snowman pushed the boy in the way.
- The midwife tells her in the middle of the birth that her child is a boy.
- As a young boy living in Italy, the sounds of the flute captivated Pahud.
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