schoolboy

English

Etymology

Compound of school +‎ boy.

Pronunciation

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Noun

schoolboy (plural schoolboys)

1. A boy attending school.

   Hypernyms: schoolchild, pupil, student

   Coordinate term: schoolgirl

Derived terms

• schoolboydom
• schoolboyhood
• schoolboyish
• schoolboyism
• schoolboy knot

 

Translations

young male student

Albanian: nxënës (sq) m Arabic: تِلْمِيذ m (tilmīḏ) Belarusian: шко́льнік m (škólʹnik), ву́чань m (vúčanʹ) Bulgarian: у́ченик (bg) m (účenik) Chinese: Mandarin: 男學生 / 男学生 (nánxuéshēng) Czech: školák (cs) m, žák (cs) m Danish: skoledreng c Dutch: leerling (nl) Finnish: koulupoika French: élève (fr) m, écolier (fr) m German: Schüler (de) m, Schuljunge (de) m Hungarian: iskolás (hu) (male or female) Icelandic: skólastrákur m, skóladrengur m, skólapiltur m Irish: buachaill scoile m Italian: alunno (it) m, scolaro (it) m Japanese: 男子児童 (だんしじどう, danshi jidō), 男子生徒 (だんしせいと, danshi seito), 男子学生 (だんしがくせい, danshi gakusei), 男生徒 (だんせいと, danseito), 男生 (ja) (だんせい, dansei) Korean: 남학생(男學生) (ko) (namhaksaeng) Latin: discipulus (la) m Latvian: skolnieks m Macedonian: ученик m (učenik) Norwegian: Bokmål: skolegutt m Polish: uczeń (pl) m Portuguese: aluno (pt) m Romanian: elev (ro) m, școlar (ro) m Russian: шко́льник (ru) m (škólʹnik), учени́к (ru) m (učeník) Sanskrit: छात्र (sa) (chātra) Scottish Gaelic: balachan-sgoile m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: у̏ченӣк m Roman: ȕčenīk (sh) m Slovak: školák m, žiak m Slovene: šolar (sl) m Swedish: skolpojke (sv) c Turkish: okul çocuğu (tr) Ukrainian: школя́р m (školjár), у́чень (uk) m (účenʹ) Walloon: scolî (wa) m

Adjective

schoolboy (not comparable)

1. Characteristic of a schoolboy, especially being cheeky, clumsy and socially unaware.

Derived terms

• schoolboy error