lad

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noun
  1. a boy or youth.

  2. Informal. a familiar or affectionate term of address for a man; chap.

  1. British Horseracing Informal. a stable boy.

Origin of lad

1
1250–1300; Middle English ladde< ?; compare late Old English Ladda (nickname)

Other words from lad

  • laddish, adjective
  • ladhood, noun

Other definitions for LAD (2 of 2)

LAD

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How to use lad in a sentence

  • Nogués and his brave lads have done their bit indeed for the glory of the Army of France.

  • They lay there—the line of our brave lads, plainly visible to a pair of good glasses—there they actually lay!

  • Be so good as to remember me to the lads and the Manilla man, and write me by return of post.

  • A lean, cadaverous boy from along the mountain, a born enemy of the lads of the village, had dared me.

  • He had gone into camp with some other lads of the Heights and had himself almost forgotten his home in the fun of that outing.

    Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn Raymond

British Dictionary definitions for lad

lad

/ (læd) /


noun
  1. a boy or young man

  2. informal a familiar form of address for any male

  1. a lively or dashing man or youth (esp in the phrase a bit of a lad)

  2. a young man whose behaviour is characteristic of male adolescents, esp in being rowdy, macho, or immature

  3. British a boy or man who looks after horses

Origin of lad

1
C13 ladde; perhaps of Scandinavian origin

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