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, lad, 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, lad

Matched Categories

1. • Male
   • Male Child

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1. ladnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "lad":

   boy, kid, guy, fda, son, forecastle

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How to use LAD in a sentence?

1. Charles Kingsley:

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

2. Emily Brontë:

   A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

3. Frances Hodgson Burnett:

   Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow.

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. Jack Reynolds:

   I’m a big, strong lad, and I’ve had plenty of needles in me in my time in various places.