Boy definition
Boy is a noun meaning "a youthful male person." It has 4 meanings, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Syllables
- 1
- Letters
- 3
- How common
- Everyday word
Boy as a noun
a youthful male person
"the baby was a boy"
Same sense: male child
a friendly informal reference to a grown man
"he likes to play golf with the boys"
a male human offspring
"his boy is taller than he is"
Same sense: son
(ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man
"get out of my way, boy"
Synonyms and antonyms
- male child
- son definition
Opposite: girl.
How to say boy
Boy has 1 syllable and rhymes with enjoy. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with boy
- enjoy
- joy
- destroy
- toy
- employ
- troy
- cowboy
- convoy
- oi
- deploy
- soy
- alloy
BOY in word games
- Scrabble
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Anagrams
- 1
Is BOY a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check BOY in the word checker, or unscramble BOY to see its 1 anagram and the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.