ALTAR BOY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boy serving as an acolyte

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("altar boy" is a kind of...):

acolyte (someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches)

boy; male child (a youthful male person)

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