Boy: Definition and part of speech

Boy

  1. v. t. To act as a boy; — in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women’s parts on the stage.
  2. n. A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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