ALTAR BOY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does altar boy mean? 

• ALTAR BOY (noun)
  The noun ALTAR BOY has 1 sense:

1. a boy serving as an acolyte

  Familiarity information: ALTAR BOY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALTAR BOY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boy serving as an acolyte

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("altar boy" is a kind of...):

acolyte (someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches)

boy; male child (a youthful male person)