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MALE CHILD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A youthful male person

Example:

most soldiers are only boys in uniform

Synonyms:

boy; male child

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("male child" 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 "male child"):

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)

Antonym:

female child (a youthful female person)

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