male child

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.