schoolboy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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From school +‎ boy.

• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈskulˌbɔɪ/

schoolboy (plural schoolboys)

1. A boy attending school.
   Hypernyms: schoolchild, pupil, student
   Coordinate term: schoolgirl

• schoolboydom
• schoolboyhood
• schoolboyish
• schoolboyism
• schoolboy knot

young male student

• Albanian: nxënës (sq) m
• Arabic: تِلْمِيذ m (tilmīḏ)
• Belarusian: шко́льнік m (škólʹnik), ву́чань m (vúčanʹ)
• Bulgarian: у́ченик (bg) m (účenik)
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 男學生 / 男学生 (nánxuéshēng)
• Czech: školák (cs) m, žák (cs) m
• Danish: skoledreng c
• Dutch: leerling (nl)
• Finnish: koulupoika
• French: élève (fr) m, écolier (fr) m
• German: Schüler (de) m, Schuljunge (de) m
• Hungarian: iskolás (hu) (male or female)
• Icelandic: skólastrákur m, skóladrengur m, skólapiltur m
• Irish: buachaill scoile m
• Italian: alunno (it) m, scolaro (it) m
• Japanese: 男子児童 (だんしじどう, danshi jidō), 男子生徒 (だんしせいと, danshi seito), 男子学生 (だんしがくせい, danshi gakusei), 男生徒 (だんせいと, danseito), 男生 (ja) (だんせい, dansei)
• Korean: 남학생(男學生) (ko) (namhaksaeng)
• Latin: discipulus (la) m
• Latvian: skolnieks m
• Macedonian: ученик m (učenik)
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: skolegutt m
• Polish: uczeń (pl) m
• Portuguese: aluno (pt) m
• Romanian: elev (ro) m, școlar (ro) m
• Russian: шко́льник (ru) m (škólʹnik), учени́к (ru) m (učeník)
• Sanskrit: छात्र (sa) (chātra)
• Scottish Gaelic: balachan-sgoile m
• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: у̏ченӣк m
  Latin: ȕčenīk (sh) m
• Slovak: školák m, žiak m
• Slovene: šolar (sl) m
• Swedish: skolpojke (sv) c
• Turkish: okul çocuğu (tr)
• Ukrainian: школя́р m (školjár), у́чень (uk) m (účenʹ)
• Walloon: scolî (wa) m

schoolboy (not comparable)

1. (figurative) Characteristic of a schoolboy, especially being cheeky, clumsy and socially unaware.

• schoolboy error