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Antonyms for youngster


Grammar : Noun
Spell : yuhng-ster
Phonetic Transcription : ˈyʌŋ stər



Definition of youngster

Origin :
  • 1580s, from young + -ster. Earlier was youngling, from Old English geongling.
  • noun child
Example sentences :
  • But now, youngster, I have answered you freely, and I trow it is time that you answered me.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "But they are true, old Nonesuch," said the youngster sadly.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa
  • "And at last he was crowned emperor," suggested the youngster.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa
  • The youngster had a way of stopping for no reason whatever and just standing there.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
  • And all the better, I dare say, for the thrashing he got when a youngster, from the Vermont tailor.
  • Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • It is true that I ran away from my mother when a youngster, and thought little of it!
  • Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • It wasn't so very many years, you see, since he had been a youngster himself!
  • Extract from : « Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts » by Roy Rutherford Bailey
  • He resented it in this youngster who had fought so gamely with death.
  • Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin
  • But I took you for a youngster, you know, a regular ten-year-old runaway.
  • Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
  • Up till then he had tolerated the youngster without all that fuss.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

Synonyms for youngster

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