boy

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

boy UK US [bɔɪ] noun countable [ boys ]
1. <E > a male child or, more generally, a male of any age
• a teenage/adolescent boy
• As a young boy, my father used to walk three miles to school.
• You've been a very naughty boy!
• Their little boy (= Their young son) is very sick.
• All right, boys and girls, quiet down!
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Children and babies
2. the boys
A. a group of male friends
• He used to like spending Friday nights with the boys.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Friends, acquaintances and contemporaries
B. ( also our boys ) an approving way of speaking about your country's soldiers
• We must not forget our boys serving far from home.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Soldiers and people who fight in wars
3. one of the boys
a typical male
• He plays football, drinks a lot of beer and generally acts like one of the boys.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Kinds of men ↑Men and women
 
• He's an affectionate little boy.
• He was always a good boy, very friendly and eager to please.
• We've got two grandchildren - a three-year-old girl and a bouncing baby boy.
• She's at that age where she's starting to get interested in boys.
• According to witnesses, the robbery was carried out by two teenage boys.
Idioms: Boys will be boys ▪ boys in blue ▪ my boy
 
exclamation ( also oh boy ) mainly US informal
used to express excitement or to emphasize something
• Boy, that was good!
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Interjections ↑Sounds used as interjections

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  son, male child
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  daughter, girl, female child, little girl