From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lad
n 1: 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"
[syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent,
blighter, cuss, bloke]
2: a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) [syn:
cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy]