altar boy

Noun

Meaning

a boy serving as an acolyte

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

boy scout assistant attendant helper acolyte altar server boyscout acolytus boy helping a priest boy serving as an acolyte priest's assistant boy acting as a priest's assistant boy adhering to traditional values boy assisting the celebrant boy who helps priest

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Antonyms

traitor main person

Hypernyms

boy acolyte male child

Examples

Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings. Elvis Costello

I was an altar boy and a choir member. Cheech Marin

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass. Bruce Springsteen

I'm a lapsed altar boy. Guillermo del Toro

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ. Hugo Chávez

The Patriarch [Kirill] cannot transform himself into Putin's altar boy. Pope Francis

Close letter words and terms

altanserin altar altar bell altar bread altar call altar card