SCHOOLBOY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does schoolboy mean? 

• SCHOOLBOY (noun)
  The noun SCHOOLBOY has 1 sense:

1. a boy attending school

  Familiarity information: SCHOOLBOY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOOLBOY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boy attending school

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

boy; male child (a youthful male person)

pupil; school-age child; schoolchild (a young person attending school (up through senior high school))

 Context examples 

I could not squirm or struggle like a schoolboy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

My father wished us, as schoolboys, to speak well, but he would never wish his grown-up daughters to be acting plays.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A sheet of vellum lay upon the board in front of him, and he held a pen in his hand, with which he had been scribbling in a rude schoolboy hand.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Oh! that was as a child, or a schoolboy,” said I, laughing in my turn, not without being a little shame-faced.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was only a schoolboy, with a schoolboy's tongue, when he was in her presence.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Harsh old flag-officers, grave post-captains, young lieutenants, all were roaring like schoolboys breaking up for the holidays.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now I am twenty-eight and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He thrust a hollow reed into it and cried out with delight like a schoolboy then he was able, on touching it with a lighted match, to cause a sharp explosion and a blue flame at the far end of the tube.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I told the Professor he shouted in glee like a schoolboy, and, after looking intently till a snow fall made sight impossible, he laid his Winchester rifle ready for use against the boulder at the opening of our shelter.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was the common practice of the dwarf, to catch a number of these insects in his hand, as schoolboys do among us, and let them out suddenly under my nose, on purpose to frighten me, and divert the queen.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)