LAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lad mean? 

• LAD (noun)
  The noun LAD has 2 senses:

1. a boy or man

2. a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)

  Familiarity information: LAD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boy or man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blighter; bloke; chap; cuss; fella; feller; fellow; gent; lad

Context example:

he's a good bloke

Hypernyms ("lad" is a kind of...):

male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lad"):

dog (informal term for a man)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cub; lad; laddie; sonny; sonny boy

Hypernyms ("lad" is a kind of...):

boy; male child (a youthful male person)

 Context examples 

I thought that it was the stable-boy who had drawn them, but the lad swore he knew nothing about it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Lively, now, my lad; you'll want it before you've done. Hunter, serve out a round of brandy to all hands.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Petrified with astonishment, the lad slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what would come of this strange affair.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So dreadful are his execrations that the frightened lad thrust his fingers into his ear-holes, and ran until the fellow was but a brown smirch upon the yellow road.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had turned to do so, when we saw a Swiss lad come running along it with a letter in his hand.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Van Helsing came and laid his hand on Arthur's shoulder, and said to him:—And now, Arthur my friend, dear lad, am I not forgiven?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She had, when she recovered, thrown open the window to let the morning air in, and had run down to the lane, whence she sent a farm-lad for the doctor.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now the name of this lad, that the real bride was to help in watching the king’s geese, was Curdken.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

That was altogether too much from a lad younger than herself, and Meg walked away, saying petulantly, "You are the rudest boy I ever saw."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Tut, Harrison, let the lad come!” cried my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)