youngster

[ yuhng-ster ]

noun

1. a child.
2. a young person.

   Synonyms: girl, boy, stripling, lad, youth

3. a young horse or other animal.
4. (in the British navy) a midshipman of less than four years' standing.
5. (in the U.S. Naval Academy) a midshipman in the second year.

youngster

/ ˈjʌŋstə /

noun

1. a young person; child or youth
2. a young animal, esp a horse

Word History and Origins

Origin of youngster¹

First recorded in 1580–90; young + -ster

Example Sentences

Only prospective studies can begin to illuminate the winding paths youngsters travel to become their adult selves.

From Science News

At just 17 million years old, this planetary family is a youngster compared to our 4-billion-year-old solar system.

From Science News For Students

At just 17 million years old, the planetary family is a youngster compared with the 4-billion-year-old solar system.

From Science News

A dolphin’s shelling behavior could also have been influenced during the tens of thousands of hours the animal spent as a youngster watching its mother.

From Science News

So it wasn’t a case of the older chicks risking their survival to feed the youngsters.

From Science News

A surveillance video shows the radio car driving directly into the park, just feet from the youngster.

From The Daily Beast

Patterson was certain this grounded youngster would not survive if he just left her there.

From The Daily Beast

“This poor guy has a pea coat on,” he says, pointing to a well-dressed youngster in the front row.

From The Daily Beast

Back in America, keeping a youngster after class was considered punishment.

From The Daily Beast

Anybody who has seen a youngster dead from bullet wounds has witnessed what is profoundly obscene.

From The Daily Beast

The youngster was in his long white nightgown, that kept tripping him up as Madame Ratignolle led him along by the hand.

From Project Gutenberg

The tall, lean youngster wore a junior pilot's bands on the sleeves of his blue uniform.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a dark-browed, good-looking youngster of nineteen, greatly resembling his mother, but with ten times her impetuosity.

From Project Gutenberg

At the same time the suspicious policeman came up with, “Now then, youngster, move on.”

From Project Gutenberg

A look that, for an instant, suffused that youngster's own because he felt his present kindness to be "second hand."

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• boy
• child
• girl
• juvenile
• kid
• pupil
• student
• teenager
• youth