Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun altar_boy

1 sense of altar boy

Sense 1
altar boy -- (a boy serving as an acolyte)
       => male child, boy -- (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")
       => acolyte -- (someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches)