altar boy

English

Noun

altar boy (plural altar boys)

1. A boy serving as an acolyte in certain forms of Christianity.
2. A young man adhering to traditional values. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Hypernyms

• altar server

Coordinate terms

• altar girl

Translations

A boy serving as an acolyte

• Catalan: escolà (ca) m, escolanet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輔祭 / 辅祭 (fǔjì)

• Dutch: misdienaar (nl) m
• Finnish: kuoripoika (fi)
• French: servant de messe (fr) m
• Galician: rapavelas m, acólito m, moociño m
• German: Messdiener (de) m, Ministrant (de) m
• Greek: παπαδάκι (el) n (papadáki)
• Hunsrik: Messdiener m
• Indonesian: putra altar (male only), misdinar (id) (any gender)
• Irish: cléireach m
• Italian: chierichetto (it) m, ministrante (it) m, abatino (it) m
• Korean: 복사 (ko) (boksa)
• Macedonian: ѓа́че n (ǵáče)
• Polish: ministrant (pl) m
• Portuguese: coroinha (pt) m, acólito (pt) m
• Russian: министра́нт (ru) m (ministránt)
• Spanish: monaguillo (es) m
• Swedish: korgosse (sv) c
• Welsh: gwas allor m, allorwas m

See also

• boy scout

References

• altar boy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “altar boy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.