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. 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.

2. 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.

3. Frances Hodgson Burnett:

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

4. Anthony Joshua:

   I feel good. The weigh-in is important but as heavyweights it don't really matter... skills pay the bills, he's a big lad, they should make a super-heavyweight division.

5. 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.