| boy | | |
| n. (person) | 1. boy, male child | a youthful male person.; "the baby was a boy"; "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"; "most soldiers are only boys in uniform" |
| ~ male person, male | a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ laddie, sonny, sonny boy, cub, lad | 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. |
| n. (person) | 2. boy | a friendly informal reference to a grown man.; "he likes to play golf with the boys" |
| ~ broth of a boy, broth of a man | an outstanding person; as if produced by boiling down a savory broth. |
| ~ adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
| ~ one of the boys | a man who has been socially accepted into a group of other men.; "he quickly became one of the boys" |
| n. (person) | 3. boy, son | a male human offspring.; "their son became a famous judge"; "his boy is taller than he is" |
| ~ jnr, jr, junior | a son who has the same first name as his father. |
| ~ male offspring, man-child | a child who is male. |
| ~ mama's boy, mamma's boy, mother's boy | a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests. |
| ~ 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. |
| n. (person) | 4. boy | (ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man.; "get out of my way, boy" |
| ~ derogation, disparagement, depreciation | a communication that belittles somebody or something. |
| ~ ethnic slur | a slur on someone's race or language. |
| ~ black man | a man who is Black. |
| sonny | | |
| n. (person) | 1. cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy | a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy). |
| ~ boy, male child | a youthful male person.; "the baby was a boy"; "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"; "most soldiers are only boys in uniform" |
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