Synonyms for lad
lædlad

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1. chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, blokenoun

   a boy or man

   "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke"

   Synonyms:
   swain, associate, logger, crevice, cranny, faller, sonny boy, pest, pesterer, curse word, fissure, blighter, feller, swearing, sonny, lumberman, curse, companion, chap, fella, cub, laddie, bloke, confrere, familiar, young man, crack, expletive, oath, lumberjack, dude, fellow, beau, comrade, gadfly, colleague, buster, mate, boyfriend, swearword, gent, cuss

2. cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   bloke, young carnivore, greenhorn, fella, gent, cub, feller, sonny, rookie, fellow, laddie, chap, cuss, blighter, sonny boy

Matched Categories

1. • Male
   • Male Child

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ladnoun

   Synonyms:
   boy, stripling, YOUNGSTER, youth, schoolboy, YONKER, young man

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "lad":

   boy, kid, guy, fda, son, forecastle

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1. Kellie Maloney:

   I was always trying to be the best and be seen as a jack-the-lad... because I was always hiding something, I could never ever let my defenses down, the manager of the heavyweight boxing champion of the world being a transsexual would have been some headline and a story that would have run for quite a while.

2. Charles Kingsley:

   Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

3. Trong Young:

   One of the best ways to judge the FB trends in a city is to see what the hotels are doing, recently Anti:dote at Fairmont Hotel and Manhattan Bar at Regent Singapore hotel opened, while Four Seasons hired one of the greatest bartenders in history -- Javier de lad Muelas -- to consult on its beverage and cocktail list at One Ninety bar.

4. Piara Powar:

   There's a strand of male culture you see in the UK, and to some extent other Anglo Saxon societies, prevalent among 20, 30 and even 40-year-olds, which is : you go abroad, you drink a fair amount, you sing songs and engage in banter, and pick on someone who is different to you, there's this pervasive sexism and racism. The idea that' anyone who isn't like us, we're going to sing about them and insult them and it's part of the lad's day out.'.

5. Leon Gautier:

   War is a misery. Not all that long ago, and perhaps you find this silly, but I would think 'perhaps I killed a young lad, perhaps I orphaned children, perhaps I widowed a woman or made a mother cry', i didn't want that, I'm not a bad man. You kill a man who's done nothing to you, that's war and you do it for your country.