The lad leaned over and shouted into Tom's ear.
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Lad
//læd//
Synonyms for "lad" (123 found)
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More general
4 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
7 entriesRelated terms
2 entriescoordinate
2 entriesderived
34 entriesShowing 16 of 34 words.
distinct from
4 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
Translations
122 translations across 43 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- kêrel noun (a boy or young man)
Albanian
1 entries- çun noun (a boy or young man)
Arabic
2 entries- شَابّ noun (a boy or young man)
- فَتًى noun (a boy or young man)
Belarusian
1 entries- хло́пец noun (a boy or young man)
Bulgarian
4 entries- мла́ди чове́че noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- мо́мък noun (a boy or young man)
- момче́ noun (a boy or young man)
- момче́ noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 小伙 noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- 小伙子 noun (a boy or young man)
- 小伙子 noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- 青年 noun (a boy or young man)
Czech
2 entries- chlapec noun (a boy or young man)
- mládenec noun (a boy or young man)
Danish
3 entries- dreng noun (a boy or young man)
- gut noun (a boy or young man)
- lillemand noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
Dutch
1 entries- jongen noun (a boy or young man)
Esperanto
4 entries- junulo noun (a boy or young man)
- knabo noun (a boy or young man)
- knabo noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- stalisto noun (a groom who works with horses)
Finnish
3 entries- kaveri noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- poika noun (a boy or young man)
- poju noun (a boy or young man)
French
4 entries- gars noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- garçon noun (a boy or young man)
- garçon noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- jeune homme noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
Galician
3 entries- raparigo noun (a boy or young man)
- rapaz noun (a boy or young man)
- rapaz noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
German
4 entries- Bube noun (a boy or young man)
- Bursche noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- Junge noun (a boy or young man)
- Knabe noun (a boy or young man)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌼𐌰𐌲𐌿𐍃 noun (a boy or young man)
Hebrew
1 entries- בָּחוּר noun (a boy or young man)
Hindi
2 entries- बालक noun (a boy or young man)
- लड़का noun (a boy or young man)
Hungarian
4 entries- fiatalember noun (a boy or young man)
- fickó noun (a boy or young man)
- fiú noun (a boy or young man)
- fiú noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
Ingrian
1 entries- priha noun (a boy or young man)
Irish
2 entries- leaid noun (a boy or young man)
- leaid noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
Japanese
2 entries- 若者 noun (a boy or young man)
- 青年 noun (a boy or young man)
Korean
1 entries- 청년 noun (a boy or young man)
Latin
1 entries- catulaster noun (a boy or young man)
Macedonian
1 entries- момче noun (a boy or young man)
Navajo
1 entries- dinééh noun (a boy or young man)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- gutt noun (a boy or young man)
- ladd noun (a boy or young man)
Odia
1 entries- ବାଳ noun (a boy or young man)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- اوشاق noun (a boy or young man)
- اوغلان noun (a boy or young man)
- شاب noun (a boy or young man)
Persian
1 entries- رایکا noun (a boy or young man)
Polish
3 entries- chłopak noun (a boy or young man)
- chłopiec noun (a boy or young man)
- młodzieniec noun (a boy or young man)
Portuguese
1 entries- rapaz noun (a boy or young man)
Romanian
1 entries- băiat noun (a boy or young man)
Russian
4 entries- ма́льчик noun (a boy or young man)
- молодо́й челове́к noun (a boy or young man)
- молодо́й челове́к noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- па́рень noun (a boy or young man)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- balach noun (a boy or young man)
- gille noun (a boy or young man)
- gille noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- òigear noun (a groom who works with horses)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- dȅčko noun (a boy or young man)
- де̏чко noun (a boy or young man)
Slovak
2 entries- chlapec noun (a boy or young man)
- mládenec noun (a boy or young man)
Slovene
2 entries- dečko noun (a boy or young man)
- fant noun (a boy or young man)
Spanish
4 entries- chaval noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- chico noun (a boy or young man)
- chico noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- mozalbete noun (a boy or young man)
Swedish
4 entries- gosse noun (a boy or young man)
- gosse noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- grabb noun (a boy or young man)
- grabb noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
Tatar
2 entries- егет noun (a boy or young man)
- малай noun (a boy or young man)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎐𐎓𐎗 noun (a boy or young man)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ле́ґінь noun (a boy or young man)
- па́рубок noun (a boy or young man)
- хло́пець noun (a boy or young man)
- хлопа́к noun (a boy or young man)
Welsh
4 entries- achan noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- bachgen noun (a boy or young man)
- boi noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
- mêt noun (familiar term of address for a young man)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
He is hardly more than a lad.
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He is as honest a lad as any.
Source: tatoeba (301402)
Science, my lad, is made out of errors, but of good ones, for they bring you step by step closer to the truth.
Source: tatoeba (663726)
Showing 4 of 21 available sentences.
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