youngling

American  

[yuhng-ling] / ˈjʌŋ lɪŋ /

noun

1. a young person.

2. anything young, as a young animal.

3. a novice; a beginner.

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adjective

1. young; youthful.

youngling British  

/ ˈjʌŋlɪŋ /

noun

1. literary

   1. a young person, animal, or plant

   2. ( as modifier )

      a youngling brood

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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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youngling

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

Only a colony of youngling Orbweavers remained snugly tented around a Jack-in-the-Pulpit.

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher