Dictionary entry details
• BOY (noun)
Meaning:
A youthful male person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
boy; male child
Context examples:
the baby was a boy / she made the boy brush his teeth every night / most soldiers are only boys in uniform
Hypernyms ("boy" is a kind of...):
male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boy"):
shop boy (a young male shop assistant)
Scout (a Boy Scout or Girl Scout)
schoolboy (a boy attending school)
ploughboy; plowboy (a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow)
Fauntleroy; Little Lord Fauntleroy (an excessively polite and well-dressed boy)
farm boy (a boy who has grown up on a farm)
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))
bat boy ((baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment)
ball boy (a boy who retrieves balls for tennis players)
altar boy (a boy serving as an acolyte)
Antonym:
girl (a youthful female person)
Meaning:
A friendly informal reference to a grown man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
he likes to play golf with the boys
Hypernyms ("boy" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boy"):
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)
Meaning:
A male human offspring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
son; boy
Context examples:
their son became a famous judge / his boy is taller than he is
Hypernyms ("boy" is a kind of...):
male offspring; man-child (a child who is male)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boy"):
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)
Instance hyponyms:
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)
Antonym:
girl (a female human offspring)
Meaning:
(ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
get out of my way, boy
Hypernyms ("boy" is a kind of...):
Black man (a man who is Black)
