A boy who acts as a priest's assistant during a service, especially in the Roman Catholic Church.
（尤指罗马天主教会中协助神父举行宗教仪式的）祭坛助手
Example sentencesExamples
I was a sixth grader, an altar boy awed by liturgy, and determined to be a priest.
He had a strong religious belief and was a daily mass-goer and in his younger days, he served as an altar boy in the Dominican Church which is located next door to where he grew up.
He was an altar boy at Our Lady of Victories Church, near his home on West Lane, while attending the next-door primary school.
Dallaire grew up a French-Canadian Catholic, an altar boy, and a soloist in the choir.
He will visit the site of the former Odeon cinema in Crouch Street, his old church where he was an altar boy in Coggeshall, and meet up with old friends.
Definition of altar boy in US English:
altar boy
nounˈɔltər bɔɪˈôltər boi
A boy who acts as a priest's assistant during a service, especially in the Roman Catholic Church.
（尤指罗马天主教会中协助神父举行宗教仪式的）祭坛助手
Example sentencesExamples
He had a strong religious belief and was a daily mass-goer and in his younger days, he served as an altar boy in the Dominican Church which is located next door to where he grew up.
Dallaire grew up a French-Canadian Catholic, an altar boy, and a soloist in the choir.
He was an altar boy at Our Lady of Victories Church, near his home on West Lane, while attending the next-door primary school.
I was a sixth grader, an altar boy awed by liturgy, and determined to be a priest.
He will visit the site of the former Odeon cinema in Crouch Street, his old church where he was an altar boy in Coggeshall, and meet up with old friends.