schoolboy

Speech parts

1. schoolboy - Noun

2. schoolboy - Adjective

Meaning

A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sonny shaver bluecoat laddie cadet cub nipper stripling Son child guy kid brat whelp minor
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Antonyms

lassie dowager colleen heifer coach birdie
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Hypernyms

boy pupil schoolchild male child school-age child

Phrases with the word

as hungry as a schoolboy as hungry as schoolboy hungry as a schoolboy hungry as schoolboy schoolboy days

Examples

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. Ernest Renan

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. Will McDonough

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." Mark Twain

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams. Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point. Henry Adams

Dior is like a big adolescent with old- fashioned shyness of as schoolboy and most charming in his childish awkwardness. Christian Dior

Close letter words and terms

schoolboard schoolbook schoolbookish schoolboy days schoolboy error schoolboy knot