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

2 senses of lad

Sense 1
chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke -- (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")
       => male, male person -- (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)

Sense 2
cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy -- (a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy))
       => 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")