Lad

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lad \Lad\ (l[a^]d), obs.
     p. p. of {Lead}, to guide. --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Lad \Lad\ (l[a^]d), n. [OE. ladde, of Celtic origin; cf. W.
     llawd, Ir. lath. [root]123. Cf. {Lass}.]
     1. A boy; a youth; a stripling. "Cupid is a knavish lad."
        --Shak.
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              There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves
              and two small fishes.                 --John vi. 9.
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     2. A companion; a comrade; a mate.
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     {Lad's love}. (Bot.) See {Boy's love}, under {Boy}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lad
       n 1: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at
            the door"; "he's a likable cuss" [syn: {chap}, {fellow},
             {feller}, {gent}, {fella}, {blighter}, {cuss}]
       2: a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) [syn: {cub},
           {laddie}, {sonny}, {sonny boy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "lad":
     bastard, bird, boy, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, bugger, cat,
     chap, character, colt, cub, duck, feller, fellow, fledgling, guy,
     hobbledehoy, jasper, joker, laddie, manchild, master, muchacho,
     pup, puppy, schoolboy, son, sonny, sonny boy, stripling, stud, tad,
     whelp, young man, youth