Definition of Boy

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Definition of Boy

Boy

A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.

To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.

In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race.

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Boy Quotations

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.
Rodney Dangerfield

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
Steve Martin

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
George Burns

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
Eddie Izzard

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.
Chris Rock

Boy Translations

boy in Afrikaans is seun
boy in Dutch is knaap, jongen
boy in Finnish is poika
boy in French is serviteur
boy in German is Knabe, Junge
boy in Italian is giovinetto, ragazzo
boy in Latin is puer
boy in Norwegian is gutt
boy in Portuguese is menino, rapaz
boy in Spanish is criado, muchacho, chico
boy in Swedish is pojke, yngling

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