altar boy

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   a boy serving as an acolyte

   Broadermale childacolyte

Questions about altar boy

What does altar boy mean?

altar boy means "a boy serving as an acolyte".

Is altar boy a common word?

altar boy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.