Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BOY

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Definitions of BOY

1. (now, rare and usually, offensiveoutside some Commonwealth nations) A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, [from 14th c.] particularly:
2. A young male human. [from 15th c.]
3. (affectionate, diminutive) A male human younger than the speaker. [from 17th c.]
4. (obsolete) A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave. [14th]
5. (now, offensive) Any non-white male, regardless of age. [from 19th c.]
6. (historical, military) A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.
7. (US, slang, uncountable) Heroin. [from 20th c.]
8. (somewhat, childish) A male (tree, gene, etc).
9. Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.
10. (transitive) To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage).
11. (education) Initialism of beginning of year.
12. (diminutive, especially, with a possessive) A son of any age.
13. (informal, sometimes mildly derogatory) A male human of any age, as opposed to a "girl" (female human of any age).
14. (informal, especially, with a possessive) A male friend.
15. (BDSM) A male submissive.
16. A male non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male pet, especially a dog. [from 15th c.]

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Examples of Using BOY in a Sentence

• A boy band is a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation.
• Calvin and Hobbes follows the humorous antics of the title characters: Calvin, a mischievous and adventurous six-year-old boy; and his friend Hobbes, a sardonic tiger.
• The story revolves around an earless robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to aid a boy named Nobita Nobi.
• Encyclopedia Brown is a series of books featuring the adventures of boy detective Leroy Brown, nicknamed "Encyclopedia" for his intelligence and range of knowledge.
• He studied music as a puer (boy chorister) at San Luigi dei Francesi, under the maestro di cappella Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, brother of Giovanni Maria Nanino.
• Born in Poland, he survived World War II in Poland as a Jewish boy and, as a young man, emigrated to the U.
• One of his sisters, seven years his senior, was Mary Palmer (1716–1794), author of Devonshire Dialogue, whose fondness for drawing is said to have had much influence on Joshua as a boy.
• Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario).
• The protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy recruited by his father Gendo to the mysterious organization Nerv.
• He was inspired by the work of Danish philologist Rasmus Rask as a boy, and with the help of Rask's grammars taught himself some Icelandic, Italian, and Spanish.
• Reid travelled to Dundee and was first tasked to design comic strip panels for a new character: a boy who did anything to evade responsibilities and favours.
• As a result of falling into a cursed Chinese spring during a training journey, he has the ability to have an instant sex change when getting wet, becoming a girl when exposed to cold water, and likewise changing back into a boy when touching hot water.

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