Usually means: Male child from birth to puberty.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word boy:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. boy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. boy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boy, the boy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boy, Boy, boy, boy: Wordnik
  7. boy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. boy: Wiktionary
  9. boy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. boy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Boy, boy: Dictionary.com
  13. boy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. boy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Boy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. boy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. boy: Rhymezone
  19. boy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. boy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. boy: Free Dictionary
  22. boy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. boy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. boy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boy: ANIME AND MANGA GLOSSARY

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BOY: Accounting Glossary
  2. BOY (Band), boy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BOY (Band), boy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. BOY: Acronym Finder
  5. BOY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  7. boy: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Boy (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. boy, boy, boy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Boy: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. Boy, the boy: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See boyhood as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A young male human.
noun:  (particularly) A male child or adolescent, as distinguished from an infant or adult.
noun:  (diminutive) A son of any age.
noun:  (endearing, diminutive) A male human younger than the speaker.
noun:  (informal, sometimes mildly offensive) A male human of any age, as opposed to a female ("girl").
noun:  (obsolete) A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.
noun:  (now rare and usually offensive outside some Commonwealth nations) A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee
noun:  A younger such worker.
noun:  (historical or offensive) A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.
noun:  (obsolete) A male camp follower.
noun:  (now offensive) Any non-white male, regardless of age.
noun:  (informal, especially with a possessive) A male friend.
noun:  (BDSM) A male submissive.
noun:  A male non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male pet, especially a dog.
noun:  (historical, military) A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.
noun:  (US, slang, uncountable) Heroin.
noun:  (somewhat childish) A male (tree, gene, etc).
verb:  (transitive) To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage).
adjective:  (education) Initialism of beginning of year.

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