younger

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈjʌŋɡɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjʌŋɡə/

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋɡə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: young‧er

Adjective

younger

1. comparative form of young: more young

   Our neighbor spent her younger years in England.

   Reading this book takes me back to my younger days.

Antonyms

• elder
• older

Derived terms

• younger brother
• younger sister

 

Translations

in an earlier period of life

• Albanian: i rinisë (sq)
• Belarusian: мало́дшы (malódšy)
• Czech: mladší (cs)
• Faliscan: mino (mino)
• Georgian: უმცროსი (umcrosi)
• German: jünger (de)
• Italian: minore (it)
• Japanese: 年下の (とししたの, toshishita no)
• Khmer: ក្មេងជាង (kmeeng jieng)
• Malayalam: ഇളയ (ml) (iḷaya)
• Polish: młodszy (pl)
• Portuguese: mais jovem
• Russian: мла́дший (ru) (mládšij), младше (ru) (mladše)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: млађи

  Roman: mlađi (sh)

• Slovak: mladší
• Slovene: mlajši (sl)
• Swedish: yngre (sv)
• Ukrainian: моло́дший (molódšyj)
• Volapük: yunikum
• Yiddish: ייִנגער (yinger)

Noun

younger (plural youngers)

1. One who is younger than another.
   • 1882, L. H. Apaque, A baker's dozen, page 102:

     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.

   • 1964, Robert S. Fox, Ronald Lippitt, John E. Lohman, Teaching of Social Science Material in the Elementary School, page 3:

     Youngers did not like olders to be mean and bossy.

   • 1980, Hans Raj Dua, Language use in Himachal Pradesh, page 249:

     First, the use of Hindi is more among the males than among the females irrespective of the interaction with elders, equals or youngers.

   • 1997, M. G. Husain, Changing Indian Society And Status Of Aged, page 162:

     A 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.

   • 2008, Janardan Prasad, Panorama of Indian education, page 61:

     So, it is necessary to educate our youngers about economy and,^[sic] school and college education can do this easily.

   • 2011, Carroll Anne Sheppard, Nancy Burton Dilliplane, Congregational Connections: Uniting Six Generations in the Church, page 49:

     There are the usual tensions between elders and middles, and between middles and youngers.

   • 2014, Simon Harding, Street Casino: Survival in violent street gangs:

     Half of them youngers didn't know how much these Brixton olders are affiliated with these Peckham olders

Antonyms

• elder