male child (n)
boy (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 18
def a youthful male person
examples 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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Hypernym male, male person
Derivationally related form boy → boyhood
Antonym boy → girl
Antonym male child → female child
Hyponym altar boy; ball boy; bat boy; cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy; catamite; farm boy; Fauntleroy, Little Lord Fauntleroy; plowboy, ploughboy; schoolboy; Scout; shop boy
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Hyponym male, male person
Hypernym altar boy; ball boy; bat boy; cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy; catamite; farm boy; Fauntleroy, Little Lord Fauntleroy; plowboy, ploughboy; schoolboy; Scout; shop boy
Antonym girl → boy
Antonym female child → male child
Derivationally related form boyhood → boy

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