old boys
Former students collectively
Old boys are former students of a school, especially a British public school or boarding school.
The term carries connotations of privilege and enduring social networks: The old boys still gather for annual reunions.
The old boy network (or old boys' network) describes informal systems where men help each other professionally based on shared educational or social backgrounds rather than merit.
- graduatesDegree recipients
- alumniFormer school members
- class reunionFormer schoolmates reconvening
- classmatesStudents in same course
- Eton CollegeElite English boarding school
gentlemen · upper class · establishment · boys club · private members · peers · prefects · students · school traditions · school blazer · schoolmates · camaraderie · privilege · nepotism · house system · social capital · network · cronyism
- elite educationboarding schools, prep schools, private schools, international schools, elite schools
- British SchoolsEton, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster, St. Paul's
old boysoutsiders
Those not belonging
newcomers · new blood · self-made men · meritocrats · social climbers
boy, boyish, schoolboy, boyhood, boyishly, schoolboys, old boy