OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 6228

lad

/læd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chico • mozalbete • mozo • niño
A boy or young man.
How great is that danger, to which poor lads are now exposed, when placed on shipboard to learn the art of sailing! Five lads, training up for the seas, were now on board this ship…
The lad, his son, had obtained a Jew's-harp, and learned to play upon it the profane airs of "Yankee Doodle," "Hail Columbia," "St. Patrick's Day," and "Auld Lang Syne."
chaval • chico • muchacho
A familiar term of address for a young man.
Come here, lad, and help me shift these boxes.
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