"boys" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Dutch]

Audio: Nl-boys.ogg
Head templates: {{head|nl|noun form}} boys
  1. plural of boy Tags: form-of, plural Form of: boy
    Sense id: en-boys-nl-noun-3cYrIVDu Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries

Noun [English]

IPA: /bɔɪz/ Audio: en-us-boys.ogg
Rhymes: -ɔɪz Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} boys
  1. plural of boy Tags: form-of, plural Form of: boy Derived forms: Boystown, boyswear, boysy
    Sense id: en-boys-en-noun-3cYrIVDu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 94 6 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 71 6 11 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 76 5 9 10

Noun [English]

IPA: /bɔɪz/ Audio: en-us-boys.ogg
Rhymes: -ɔɪz Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} boys pl (plural only)
  1. (slang) The testicles. Tags: plural, plural-only, slang
    Sense id: en-boys-en-noun-aPdJuznR

Noun [French]

Head templates: {{head|fr|noun form}} boys
  1. plural of boy Tags: form-of, plural Form of: boy
    Sense id: en-boys-fr-noun-3cYrIVDu Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries

Noun [Middle French]

Forms: boys [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old French bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus, borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Etymology templates: {{etymon|frm|inh|fro>bois>woodland|id=woodland|text=++}} Inherited from Old French bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus, borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Head templates: {{head|frm|noun|||plural|boys||{{{pl2}}}||{{{f}}}||{{{f}}}s|f1accel-form=p|g=m|g2=|head=|sort=}} boys m (plural boys), {{frm-noun|m|boys}} boys m (plural boys)
  1. wood (area with trees) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-boys-frm-noun-S8cduJaH
  2. wood (material from plants) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-boys-frm-noun-8YEPF2iw Categories (other): Middle French entries with etymology texts, Middle French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle French entries with etymology texts: 41 59 Disambiguation of Middle French entries with incorrect language header: 14 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bois, boiz

Noun [Spanish]

Head templates: {{head|es|noun form|g=m-p}} boys m pl
  1. plural of boy Tags: form-of, masculine, plural Form of: boy
    Sense id: en-boys-es-noun-3cYrIVDu Categories (other): Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.