youngling
Americannoun
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a young person.
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anything young, as a young animal.
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a novice; a beginner.
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of youngling
before 900; Middle English yongling, Old English geongling; cognate with Dutch jongeling, German Jüngling. See young, -ling 1
Example Sentences
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Grogu is a youngling who is strong in the Force.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2023
The summer dies, but you will always stay A youngling in some future reader’s thought.
From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2022
Outside, a family of osprey are encouraging a youngling in what appears to be its first flight.
From Salon • Mar. 20, 2022
Jedi candidates were generally identified as children and progressed from youngling to padawan to knight to master.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2015
The tongue of the bobbed-haired youngling had run according to form.
From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel
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