male child vs lad

lad vs male child

male child and lad both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
male child	Yes	No	No	No
lad	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, lad is a hyponym of male child; that is, lad is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than male child:

male child: a youthful male person
lad: a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)

Other hyponyms of male child include altar boy, ball boy, bat boy, cub, laddie, sonny, sonny boy, catamite, farm boy, Fauntleroy, Little Lord Fauntleroy, ploughboy, plowboy, schoolboy, Scout, shop boy.

male child (noun)	lad (noun)
a youthful male person	a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
	a boy or man

Difference between male child and lad

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