Significato di boy in inglese

boy

noun [ C ]

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a male child or, more generally, a male of any age:

a teenage/adolescent boy

As a young boy, my father used to walk three miles to school.

You've been a very naughty boy!

little boy Their little boy is very sick.

boys and girls All right, boys and girls, settle down!

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a child

childWhen I was a child the summers seemed to go on for ever.
boyThere's a new boy in my class.
girlThe girl's name is Sally.
kidI'm off to pick up the kids from school.
kiddieI saw her with a little kiddie in a pushchair.
little oneThe little ones must be hungry by now.

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the boys B2 [ plural ]

a group of male friends:

He used to like spending Friday nights with the boys.

(also our boys)

an approving way of speaking about your country's soldiers:

We must not forget our boys serving far from home.

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one of the boys

a typical male:

He plays baseball, drinks a lot of beer and generally acts like one of the boys.

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Altri esempiMeno esempi

He's an affectionate little boy.
He was always a good boy, very friendly and eager to please.
We've got two grandchildren - a three-year-old girl and a bouncing baby boy.
She's at that age where she's starting to get interested in boys.
According to witnesses, the robbery was carried out by two teenage boys.

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Children & babies

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Espressioni idiomatiche

bad/big boy
boys will be boys
my (dear) boy
the boys in blue

boy

exclamation

mainly US informal

/bɔɪ/ us

/bɔɪ/

(also oh boy)

used to express excitement, worry, disappointment, etc. or to emphasize something:

Boy, that was good!

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Linguistics: interjections

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(Definizione di boy dal Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

boy | Dizionario inglese americano

boy

noun [ C ]

/bɔɪ/

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a male child or, more generally, a male of any age:

Some boys were playing basketball in the schoolyard.

Boy sometimes means son:

We have two children – a boy and a girl.

Espressione idiomatica

(Oh) boy!

(Definizione di boy dal Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

BOY | Inglese per gli affari

BOY

noun [ U ]

ACCOUNTING, FINANCE

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abbreviation for beginning of year

(Definizione di boy dal Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Esempi di boy

boy

Analyzing twin resemblance in multisymptom data : genetic applications of a latent class model for symptoms of conduct disorder in juvenile boys.

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The boy wants so much to believe them, to know that it's true.

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The boy wants to sit beside him, but his father leads him away.

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For example, a boy who does not graduate from high school has limited employment and further education options.

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The signi®cant data demonstrated that boys and girls totally differed in the type of musical tastes.

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Results indicated that externalizing behavior was positively associated with physical victimization for boys and girls, but not with relational victimization.

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A 22-month-old boy was referred for corrective cardiac surgery.

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These intercept estimates indicate that rejected boys had approximately three more parent-reported internalizing symptoms than nonrejected boys at the initial sixth-grade assessment.

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The boys were dressed in khaki and gave up all other activities in order to establish a state.

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A working boy was elevated to heroic status.

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Methodological considerations ultimately reduced our final sample size to 28; there were seventeen boys and eleven girls.

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Neighbouring villages would typically share a common grazing area to prevent stock rustlers from attacking boys caring for livestock far from the settlements.

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Besides music appreciation and singing, girls also scored higher responding means than boys for playing the recorder and other instruments.

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A variety of studies using court records, arrests, and self-report measures indicates that juvenile crime is increasing proportionately for both boys and girls.

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In their study of aggressive adolescent boys in residential mental health treatment, the stimuli were facial expressions of others depicted in photos.

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Collocazioni con boy

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adolescent boy

At any rate, the allowance to the adolescent boy and girl has been increased.

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baby boy

She had died in childbirth, leaving her husband with a baby boy.

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clever boy

I do not think the really clever boy or girl suffers enormously by the large classes.

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