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OLD BOY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A vivacious elderly man
Classified under:
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:
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:
Hypernyms ("old boy" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
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)
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