Word.ws English Dictionary

dayboy

/ˈdeɪˌbɔɪ/

dayboy noun: a boy who attends a boarding school only during the day.

Noun

dayboy (plural dayboys)

  1. A boy who attends a boarding school only during the day.

Forms of dayboy

pluraldayboys

Origin of dayboy

From day + boy.

Questions about dayboy

What does dayboy mean?
Dayboy means a boy who attends a boarding school only during the day.
What part of speech is dayboy?
Dayboy is a noun.
How do you pronounce dayboy?
Dayboy is pronounced /ˈdeɪˌbɔɪ/.
What is the plural of dayboy?
The plural of dayboy is dayboys.

Words near dayboy in the dictionary

  1. dayboards
  2. dayboat
  3. dayboats
  4. daybook
  5. daybooks
  6. dayboy
  7. dayboys
  8. daybreak
  9. daybreaks
  10. Daybrook
  11. daycamp

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dayboy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dayboy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dayboy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.