Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A man who has sexual relations, especially anal intercourse, with a boy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is guilty of pederasty. Also pederist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A man who is engaged in an erotic relationship with an adolescent boy; a practitioner of pederasty.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek paiderastēs : pais, paid-, child; see pedo– + erastēs, lover (from erasthai, to love).]

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From Ancient Greek παιδεραστής (paiderastēs, "lover of boys"), from παῖς (pais, "boy") and εραστής (erastēs, "lover").

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  • "Eight year olds, Dude."

    February 20, 2007