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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke]
2: a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) [syn: cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English ladde Date: 14th century 1. a male person of any age between early boyhood and maturity ; boy, youth 2. fellow, chap

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a a boy or youth. b a young son. 2 (esp. in pl.) colloq. a man; a fellow, esp. a workmate, drinking companion, etc. (he's one of the lads). 3 colloq. a high-spirited fellow; a rogue (he's a bit of a lad). 4 Brit. a stable-worker (regardless of age). Phrases and idioms: lad's love = SOUTHERNWOOD. Etymology: ME ladde, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lad Lad, n. [OE. ladde, of Celtic origin; cf. W. llawd, Ir. lath. [root]123. Cf. Lass.] 1. A boy; a youth; a stripling. ``Cupid is a knavish lad.'' --Shak. There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes. --John vi. 9. 2. A companion; a comrade; a mate. Lad's love. (Bot.) See Boy's love, under Boy.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lad Lad, obs. p. p. of Lead, to guide. --Chaucer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(lads) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A lad is a young man or boy. (INFORMAL) When I was a lad his age I would laugh at the strangest things... Come along, lad. Time for you to get home. N-COUNT; N-VOC 2. Some men refer to their male friends or colleagues as the lads. (BRIT INFORMAL) ...a drink with the lads... N-PLURAL: the N

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

In the Old Testament this word occurs as the translation of na`ar, "young person," "child," "servant," the Revised Version (British and American) properly substituting "servant" in 2Ki 4:19; Jud 16:26 is another passage where either sense of the original word may be intended. The word occurs in the New Testament in Joh 6:9 as the translation of paidarion; in Ac 20:12, pais (the King James Version "young man").

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Boy, stripling, youngster, youth, schoolboy, younker, young man.

Moby Thesaurus

bastard, bird, boy, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, bugger, cat, chap, character, colt, cub, duck, feller, fellow, fledgling, guy, hobbledehoy, jasper, joker, laddie, manchild, master, muchacho, pup, puppy, schoolboy, son, sonny, sonny boy, stripling, stud, tad, whelp, young man, youth