"principal boy" meaning in English

See principal boy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: principal boys [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} principal boy (plural principal boys)
  1. The young male protagonist of a pantomime, traditionally played by a female. Wikipedia link: principal boy
    Sense id: en-principal_boy-en-noun-CABBgkud Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for principal boy meaning in English (0.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "principal boys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "principal boy (plural principal boys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The young male protagonist of a pantomime, traditionally played by a female."
      ],
      "id": "en-principal_boy-en-noun-CABBgkud",
      "links": [
        [
          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "male",
          "male"
        ],
        [
          "protagonist",
          "protagonist"
        ],
        [
          "pantomime",
          "pantomime"
        ],
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "principal boy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "principal boy"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "principal boys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "principal boy (plural principal boys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The young male protagonist of a pantomime, traditionally played by a female."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "male",
          "male"
        ],
        [
          "protagonist",
          "protagonist"
        ],
        [
          "pantomime",
          "pantomime"
        ],
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "principal boy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "principal boy"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). 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.