Library / English Dictionary

OLD BOY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vivacious elderly man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A former male pupil of a school

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

alum; alumna; alumnus; grad; graduate (a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A familiar term of address for a man

Synonyms:

old boy; old man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Credits

 Context examples: 

So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)