boy
young male human
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Summary
boy ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,082 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Follows: baby boy[2]
- Followed by: man[3], young adult man[4], teenage boy[5]
- Subclass of: child[6], male human[7]
- Commons category: Boys[8]
- Opposite of: girl[9]
- Unicode character: 👦[10]
- Topic's main category: Category:Boys[11]
- Depicted by: Old Man and a Boy[12]
- Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[13]
- Exact match: http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/10624074-n[14], http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn31/110558142-n[15]
- Minimum age: 2 years old[16]
- Maximum age: 18 years old[17]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]
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Influence
Things named for boy include BTS[19], a boy band[20], in South Korea[21], founded in 2013[22] and femboy[23], a slang term[24], founded in 1990[25].
Why It Matters
boy has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] boy is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]
Entities named for boy include BTS[19], a boy band[20], in South Korea[21], founded in 2013[22] and femboy[23], a slang term[24], founded in 1990[25].