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lad

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lad  (ld)
n.
1. A young man; a youth.
2. Informal A man of any age; a fellow.

[Middle English ladde, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]

lad
Noun
1. a boy or young man
2. Informal any male
3. the lads Informal a group of males [perhaps from Old Norse]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.ladlad - 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"
male person, male - a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
dog - informal term for a man; "you lucky dog"
2.lad - a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
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"

lad
noun boy, kid (informal) guy (informal) youth, fellow, youngster, chap (informal) juvenile, shaver (informal) nipper (informal) laddie Scot. stripling
Translations

lad [læd] nmuchacho, chico;
(in stable etc) → mozo
lad [læd] ngarçon m, gars m;
(Brit) (in stable etc) → lad m
lad [læd] nJunge m
lad [læd] nragazzo, giovanotto;
(BRIT) (in stable etc) → mozzo or garzone m di stalla

lad
n lad [lӕd]
a boy or a youth I knew him when he was a lad.seunصَبي، فتىмладежchlapecdrengjunger Kerlνεαρός, παλικαράκιmuchacho, chico, chavalpoiss, noormeesپسربچهpoikagarçonנַעַרलड़का, नवयुवकdječakifjúpemudadrengur, strákurragazzo, ragazzino少年소년jaunuolis, vaikinaszēns; puisisbudakknaapgutt(unge), ungguttchłopiecrapazbăiat; tânărмальчик, юношаchlapecmladeničmomakpojke, gosse, grabbเด็กหนุ่มoğlan çocuğu, delikanlı小伙子хлопець, хлопчикلڑکاchàng trai

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By this the Irishman knew that she had sent the lad to wait on him.
He saw at first no way in which he could, with safety to himself, wreak vengeance upon Tarzan through the medium of Tarzan's son; but that great possibilities for revenge lay in the boy was apparent to him, and so he determined to cultivate the lad in the hope that fate would play into his hands in some way in the future.
After waiting some minutes, a lad appeared and touched his hat.
 
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