Boy | Mean of boy in English Dictionary

/ˈboɪ/

• Noun
• a male child
1. It's a boy! She gave birth to a baby boy this morning.
2. a nine-year-old boy named David
3. Okay, boys and girls, it's time to play a game.
4. Ever since I was a (little/young) boy, I've wanted to fly airplanes.
• a young man
1. a group of teenage boys
2. My parents want me to meet a nice boy and get married.
3. Don't be so hard on him. He's just a boy.
4. He's a boy genius.
5. a boy wonder [=a young man who has achieved many great things]
• a usually young man from a specified kind of place
1. city/country boys = boys from the city/country
2. a local/hometown boy
3. a poor boy from the north
4. a farm boy [=a young man who lives and works on a farm]

• the male friends or work partners of a man viewed as a group
1. Wait till the boys back home hear about this!
2. Our boss thinks of himself as just one of the boys.
3. He went out drinking with the boys.
• a man of any age
1. Why, my dear boy, of course I want to see you.
2. Cheer up, old boy.
• a man or boy who does a particular job
1. a messenger boy