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LAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
Synonyms:
cub; lad; laddie; sonny; sonny boy
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lad" is a kind of...):
boy; male child (a youthful male person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A boy or man
Example:
he's a good bloke
Synonyms:
blighter; bloke; chap; cuss; fella; feller; fellow; gent; lad
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("lad" is a kind of...):
male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lad"):
dog (informal term for a man)
Context examples:
"All right, sonny my lad—you'll do," said he.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All my retinue was that poor lad for an interpreter, whom I persuaded into my service, and, at my humble request, we had each of us a mule to ride on.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Hannah entered with the intimation that "a poor lad was come, at that unlikely time, to fetch Mr. Rivers to see his mother, who was drawing away."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
His heart was warmed, his fancy fired, and he felt the highest respect for a lad who, before he was twenty, had gone through such bodily hardships and given such proofs of mind.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A small sharp-looking lad, half-footboy and half-clerk, who was very much out of breath, but who looked at me as if he defied me to prove it legally, presented himself.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
On being made acquainted with the present Mr. Darcy's treatment of him, she tried to remember some of that gentleman's reputed disposition when quite a lad which might agree with it, and was confident at last that she recollected having heard Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy formerly spoken of as a very proud, ill-natured boy.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He had played cards with the lad, he had followed him home from the club, he had shot him through the open window.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Out, lads, out, and fight 'em in the open! Cutlasses!” cried the captain.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Van Helsing laid a hand on his shoulder, and said:—Brave lad! A moment's courage, and it is done. This stake must be driven through her.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
McCarthy had one son, a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same age, but neither of them had wives living.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
