male child

/meɪl tʃaɪld/

Other forms: male children

Definitions of male child

1. noun

   a youthful male person
   synonyms: boy

   antonyms:

   female child

   a youthful female person

   types:

   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

   Boy Scout

   a boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts

   Girl Scout

   a girl who is a member of the Girl Scouts

   type of:

   male, male person

   a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies