English
Etymology
Compound of school + boy.
Pronunciation
Noun
schoolboy (plural schoolboys)
- A boy attending school.
- Hypernyms: schoolchild, pupil, student
- Coordinate term: schoolgirl
Derived terms
Translations
young male student
- Albanian: nxënës (sq) m
- Arabic: تِلْمِيذ m (tilmīḏ)
- Belarusian: шко́льнік m (škólʹnik), ву́чань m (vúčanʹ)
- Bulgarian: у́ченик (bg) m (účenik)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 男學生 / 男学生 (nánxuéshēng)
- Czech: školák (cs) m, žák (cs) m
- Danish: skoledreng c
- Dutch: leerling (nl)
- Finnish: koulupoika
- French: élève (fr) m, écolier (fr) m
- German: Schüler (de) m, Schuljunge (de) m
- Hungarian: iskolás (hu) (male or female)
- Icelandic: skólastrákur m, skóladrengur m, skólapiltur m
- Irish: buachaill scoile m
- Italian: alunno (it) m, scolaro (it) m
- Japanese: 男子児童 (だんしじどう, danshi jidō), 男子生徒 (だんしせいと, danshi seito), 男子学生 (だんしがくせい, danshi gakusei), 男生徒 (だんせいと, danseito), 男生 (ja) (だんせい, dansei)
- Korean: 남학생(男學生) (ko) (namhaksaeng)
- Latin: discipulus (la) m
- Latvian: skolnieks m
- Macedonian: ученик m (učenik)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skolegutt m
- Polish: uczeń (pl) m
- Portuguese: aluno (pt) m
- Romanian: elev (ro) m, școlar (ro) m
- Russian: шко́льник (ru) m (škólʹnik), учени́к (ru) m (učeník)
- Sanskrit: छात्र (sa) (chātra)
- Scottish Gaelic: balachan-sgoile m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у̏ченӣк m
- Roman: ȕčenīk (sh) m
- Slovak: školák m, žiak m
- Slovene: šolar (sl) m
- Swedish: skolpojke (sv) c
- Turkish: okul çocuğu (tr)
- Ukrainian: школя́р m (školjár), у́чень (uk) m (účenʹ)
- Walloon: scolî (wa) m
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Adjective
schoolboy (not comparable)
- Characteristic of a schoolboy, especially being cheeky, clumsy and socially unaware.
Derived terms