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Boy

/bɔːə/

A young male.

📖 Definitions of "Boy"

noun

1
A young male.
"Kate is dating a boy named Jim."
2
(diminutive) A male child: a son of any age.
3
(diminutive) A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker.
4
A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.

verb

1
To use the word “boy” to refer to someone.
"Don't boy me!"
2
To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage).

interjection

1
Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.
"Boy, I wish I could go to Canada!"

3 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
childnoun	(broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
male childnoun	a youthful male person
sonnoun	One's male offspring.

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
girlnoun	A female child.
childnoun	(broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
daughternoun	One’s female offspring.
little girlnoun	A female child, especially one younger than ten years of age.
female childnoun	a youthful female person

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
childnoun	(broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
sonnoun	One's male offspring.
male childnoun	a youthful male person
ladnoun	A boy or young man.
laddienoun	(Scotland, Northumbria) A small boy.
kiddonoun	(US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) A child.
mannoun	An adult male human.
sonnynoun	(dated) A familiar form of address for a boy.
blokenoun	(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
himnoun	(informal) A male person or animal.
boyfriendnoun	A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
toddlernoun	A young child who has started walking but not fully mastered it, typically between one and three years old.
youngsternoun	A young person.
babynoun	A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
masculinenoun	(grammar) The masculine gender.
infantnoun	A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
girlnoun	A female child.
dudenoun	(chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) A man, generally a younger man.
youthful	Young or seeming young.
youthnoun	(uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.