altar boy

altar boy

n.

Christianity A boy who is an altar server.

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altar boy

n

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) RC Church Church of England a boy serving as an acolyte

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

altar boy - a boy serving as an acolyte           acolyte - someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches boy, male child - a youthful male person; "the baby was a boy"; "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"; "most soldiers are only boys in uniform"