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schoolboy

/ˈskulˌbɔɪ/

schoolboy noun: a boy attending school.

Noun

schoolboy (plural schoolboys)

  1. A boy attending school.

Adjective

schoolboy (not comparable)

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

schoolboy meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

schoolboy in Hindi

schoolboy
छात्र chātra

schoolboy in Urdu

schoolboy
چھاتر chātr

schoolboy in Bengali

স্কুলছাত্র

schoolboy in Kannada

ಶಾಲಾ ಬಾಲಕ
More languagesFewer languages
schoolboy in Gujarati
નિશાળિયો niśāḷiyo
schoolboy in Sanskrit
छात्र chātra
schoolboy in Assamese
ছাত্ৰ satro
schoolboy in Arabic
تِلْمِيذ tilmīḏ

Examples of schoolboy in a sentence

  • The schoolboy called out to his friend while he was peeing in the urinal.
  • The schoolboy was commended for raising the alarm about the burning building.
  • The rival schoolboys traded insults and punches.

All 26 example sentences with schoolboy

Forms of schoolboy

pluralschoolboys

Plural of schoolboy: schoolboys

Origin of schoolboy

From school + boy.

Words formed from schoolboy

Phrases with schoolboy

Questions about schoolboy

What does schoolboy mean?
Schoolboy means a boy attending school.
What is schoolboy in Hindi?
Schoolboy in Hindi is छात्र (chātra). See Schoolboy meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is schoolboy?
Schoolboy can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce schoolboy?
Schoolboy is pronounced /ˈskulˌbɔɪ/ (US).
What is the plural of schoolboy?
The plural of schoolboy is schoolboys.

Words near schoolboy in the dictionary

  1. schoolboard
  2. schoolboards
  3. schoolbook
  4. schoolbookish
  5. schoolbooks
  6. schoolboy
  7. schoolboy error
  8. schoolboy errors
  9. schoolboy knot
  10. schoolboy knots
  11. schoolboydom

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: schoolboy (page history and authors); छात्र (Hindi) (page history and authors); چھاتر (Urdu) (page history and authors); schoolboy (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); schoolboy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); નિશાળિયો (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ছাত্ৰ (Assamese) (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.

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