male child

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsboy

   Antonymsfemale child

   Broadermale

   Narroweraltar boyball boybat boycubcatamitefarm boyFauntleroyplowboyschoolboyScout

Questions about male child

What does male child mean?

male child means "a youthful male person".

What is another word for male child?

Close synonyms include boy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of male child?

The recorded antonyms are female child.

Is male child a common word?

male child is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.