altar boy

altar boy

n. Christianity A boy who is an altar server.

altar boy

n (Ecclesiastical Terms) RC Church Church of England a boy serving as an acolyte

ac•o•lyte

(ˈæk əˌlaɪt)

n. 1. an altar attendant in public worship; altar boy. 2. any attendant, assistant, or follower. [1275–1325; Middle English< Medieval Latin acolytus < Greek akólouthos follower, attendant]

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altar boy - a boy serving as an acolyte 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 Churchesboy, male child - 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"