Meanings
younger1
plural youngers
- One who is younger than another.
Youngers did not like olders to be mean and bossy.
1964, Robert S. Fox, Ronald Lippitt, John E. Lohman, Teaching of Social Science Material in the Elementary School, page 35 more examples
Hugh and Charlie also played fairly well, so perhaps it was not wonderful that James, who had always regarded cricket as a childish waste of time, felt rather at a loss, and did not care to display his inferiority to his youngers.
1882, L. H. Apaque, A baker's dozen, page 102First, the use of Hindi is more among the males than among the females irrespective of the interaction with elders, equals or youngers.
1980, Hans Raj Dua, Language use in Himachal Pradesh, page 249A section of semi-structured interview schedule was also included in the research in order to test if youngers face any problem with elders staying with them.
1997, M. G. Husain, Changing Indian Society And Status Of Aged, page 162So, it is necessary to educate our youngers about economy and,^([sic]) school and college education can do this easily.
2008, Janardan Prasad, Panorama of Indian education, page 61There are the usual tensions between elders and middles, and between middles and youngers.
2011, Carroll Anne Sheppard, Nancy Burton Dilliplane, Congregational Connections: Uniting Six Generations in the Church, page 49
Younger2
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of junior.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveused of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- DutchJonker
- GermanJunger, Junker
- Middle Dutchjongheer“young nobleman”
- Middle Englishyungre“younger”
- EnglishYounger
* An English (mainly Northumberland and eastern Scotland) surname from Middle English yungre (“younger”), used to distinguish younger and older men with the same name. * In at least one case (of an immigrant Fleming), probably an Americanized form of Middle Dutch jongheer (“young nobleman”). * Americanized form of cognate or like-sounding names, notably German Junger, Junker and Dutch Jonker.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech mladší
- mladšíin an earlier period of life
Finnish nuorempi
- nuorempiin an earlier period of life
German jünger
- jüngerin an earlier period of life
Italian minore
- minorein an earlier period of life
Japanese 年下の
- 年下の (toshishita no)in an earlier period of life
Polish młodszy
- młodszyin an earlier period of life
Portuguese mais jovem
- mais jovemin an earlier period of life
Russian мла́дший, младше
- мла́дший (mládšij)in an earlier period of life
- младше (mladše)in an earlier period of life
Slovak mladší
- mladšíin an earlier period of life
Swedish yngre
- yngrein an earlier period of life
Ukrainian моло́дший
- моло́дший (molódšyj)in an earlier period of life
Yiddish ייִנגער
- ייִנגער (yinger)in an earlier period of life
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with younger
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