youngest

[ yuhng-gist ]

adjective

noun

a person who is the least old of a group, as the youngest member of a family: Their youngest is still in high school.

Origin of youngest

First recorded before 1000; young + -est¹

Average age ranges from 45 to 65, with her youngest client at 18 and the oldest in her 80s.
Inside A Finishing School for Transwomen | Sharon Adarlo | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Republican Elise Stefanik, 30, of upstate New York, just became the youngest woman ever elected to the House of Representatives.
When Will We See a #Millennial Congress? | Linda Killian | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
“The youngest old man any of us knows,” an unnamed friend of Atlantic Publisher David Bradley said of Hughes.
The Rise and Fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America’s Worst Gay Power Couple | James Kirchick | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
This week, on December 10th, Human Rights Day, she will receive the Nobel Prize—the youngest person ever to be honored.
Promoting Girls’ Education Isn’t Enough: Malala Can Do More | Paula Kweskin | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Wahlberg grew up the youngest of nine children in a broken home in the rough Dorchester section of Boston.
Mark Wahlberg’s Pardon Plea: A Look Back At His Troubling, Violent, and Racist Rap Sheet | Marlow Stern | December 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

In his youngest days, when his mother used to regulate his food, she would stuff him full of rice.
Our Little Korean Cousin | H. Lee M. Pike
Our youngest benedict was not more than eighteen years of age, and his salary only £45 a year.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
In his twenty-third year he became manager of the Shrewsbury and Ludlow Railway—probably the youngest railway manager recorded.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
"We have a grandfather in Greenfield," spoke up the youngest child before his sister could clap her hand over his mouth.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner
Of her very numerous family, four daughters and her youngest son had accompanied her to Petersburg.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste Tchaikovsky

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