What does youngster mean?

Definitions for youngster
ˈyʌŋ stəryoung·ster

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestlingnoun

    a young person of either sex

    "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

Wiktionary

  1. youngsternoun

    A young person.

  2. Etymology: Derived from.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Youngster, Younker

    A young person. In contempt.

    Etymology: from young.

    How like a younker or a prodigal
    The skarfed bark parts from her native bay,
    Hugg’d and embraced by the strumpet wind. William Shakespeare.

    What, will you make a younker of me? shall I not take mine ease in mine inn, but I shall so have my pocket pick’d. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

    See how the morning opes her golden gates,
    And takes her farewel of the glorious sun:
    How well resembles it the prime of youth,
    Trimm’d like a yonker prancing to his love. William Shakespeare.

    Fame tells, by age fame reverend grown,
    That Phœbus gave his chariot to his son;
    And whilst the youngster from the path declines,
    Admiring the strange beauty of the signs,
    Proud of his charge, he drove the fiery horse,
    And would outdo his father in his course. Thomas Creech.

    The youngster, who at nine and three,
    Drinks with his sisters milk and tea,
    From breakfast reads till twelve o’clock,
    Burnet and Heylin, Hobbes and Locke. Matthew Prior.

ChatGPT

  1. youngster

    A youngster is a child or a young person, typically referring to someone who is not yet an adult or is in an early stage of life.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Youngsternoun

    a young person; a youngling; a lad

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. youngster

    [an old term; from the Anglo-Saxon junker]. A volunteer of the first-class, and a general epithet for a stripling in the service.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'youngster' in Nouns Frequency: #1682

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of youngster in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of youngster in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of youngster in a Sentence

  1. De Vanna:

    They thought it was funny. I was just a young kid from Perth, I didn’t know any different. I ... wanted to punch them, as a youngster and a player I didn’t know how to address this ... but it is still happening across all levels and it’s time to speak up.

  2. Sam Stoller:

    My uncle and father would always tell me about Sam, as a youngster, I never really understood it -- I never really understood the size of it.

  3. Sam Baker:

    When I was a youngster, somebody gave me a white rat as a pet.

  4. Alex McNabb:

    So, guess who volunteered to take( his) blood ? dr. Narcan enjoyed great, immense satisfaction as he terrorized this youngster with a needle and stabbed him thusly in the arm with a large-gauge IV catheter.

  5. Tom Watson:

    Augusta National in April is one of my favorite places to be, with the many fond memories of both watching the Masters as a youngster and then competing in the tournament for so many years, I am greatly honored to join my friends and fellow competitors, Jack and Gary, as an honorary starter in this upcoming Masters.

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