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say it: boy
boy is a noun meaning "a youthful male person". It is pronounced /ˈbɔɪ/ — boy. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a youthful male person
“the baby was a boy”
“she made the boy brush his teeth every night”
“most soldiers are only boys in uniform”
a friendly informal reference to a grown man
“he likes to play golf with the boys”
a male human offspring
“their son became a famous judge”
“his boy is taller than he is”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for boy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.