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Definition: Youngster |
YoungsterNoun1. A young person of either sex (between birth and puberty); "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "youngster" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Note: Youngster \Young"ster\, noun. young person; youngling; lad. [Colloq.]. (references) |
Synonyms: YoungsterSynonyms: child (n), fry (n), kid (n), minor (n), nestling (n), nipper (n), shaver (n), small fry (n), tiddler (n), tike (n), tyke (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Infant | Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Youngster |
| English words defined with "youngster": -ster. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "youngster": meerschaum ♦ steel boy. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "youngster": Oldster. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Now, if come guy ever does put a ring on your finger and you're lucky enough to pop out a youngster I'm sure you'll understand (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | This youngster wanted to grow up and be just like Dad. An Eskimo toddler dreams of hunting on the Bering Sea with his father. F&WS 1166. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Youngster on a fishing trip at Hyatt Lake. Credit: Tim Haller. |
 | Pure Castor Oil : My youngster swallowed.... Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Farley looked closely at the redheaded youngster and smiled with recognition. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | War nursery schools. Woonsocket, Rhode Island.This young lady's mother works in a war plant. The youngster passes twelve hours a day Monday through Saturday in one of the thirty-five war nurseries conducted for war workers' children. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Manpower, junior size. She's put her playthings aside for a more important game. This Roanoke, Virginia youngster is one of America's thousands of school age boys and girls who are self-appointed scrap collectors for the duration. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Butte, Montana. Youngster at Columbia Gardens. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Florence, Alabama (vicinity). Boy Scout camp. Youngster. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Teheran, Iran. Polish youngster carrying an armload of loaves of bread made from Red Cross flour at an evacuation camp. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Alan Lomax (left) youngster on board boat, during Bahamas recording expedition. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In repartee, this youngster is as famous as Talleyrand |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Serious infections, especially bacterial infections, may cause a youngster to be hospitalized repeatedly. (references) | |
Melanocytes are cells containing melanin, a pigment that provides color to the skin, hair, and eyes. The skin and hair of a youngster with CHS lack color (partial albinism), while lack of pigment in the eyes makes the person overly sensitive to light. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made of it.) A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by the workmen engaged in that industry. The purpose of coloring it has not been disclosed by the manufacturers. There was a youth (you've heard before, This woeful tale, may be), Who bought a meerschaum pipe and swore That color it would he! He shut himself from the world away, Nor any soul he saw. He smoke by night, he smoked by day, As hard as he could draw. His dog died moaning in the wrath Of winds that blew aloof; The weeds were in the gravel path, The owl was on the roof. "He's gone afar, he'll come no more," The neighbors sadly say. And so they batter in the door To take his goods away. Dead, pipe in mouth, the youngster lay, Nut-brown in face and limb. "That pipe's a lovely white," they say, "But it has colored him!" The moral there's small need to sing -- 'Tis plain as day to you: Don't play your game on any thing That is a gamester too. Martin Bulstrode |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Youngster" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.81% of the time. "Youngster" is used about 518 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.81% | 517 | 11,748 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 518 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "youngster": cheeky youngster. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
youngster | 59 |
nude youngster | 14 |
sex youngster | 11 |
at risk youngster | 9 |
naked youngster | 7 |
gifted school xaviers youngster | 6 |
gay youngster | 5 |
porn youngster | 5 |
gifted institute youngster | 3 |
tgp youngster | 3 |
home instruction preschool program youngster | 2 |
gifted institute xavier youngster | 2 |
naturist youngster | 2 |
shivy youngster | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "youngster"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | jongmens (youth). (various references) | |
Albanian | fëmijë (bairn, child, chit, infant, kid, little one, moppet, progeny, tad), djalë (boy, chap, child, egg, fella, fellow, Jack, Johnny, lad, loon, man child, son, Walla). (various references) | |
Arabic | فتى (adolescent, boy, bugger, lad, scout, sprig, young man, youngish, youth), حدث (befall, calamity, come, come about, come by, come off, disaster, episode, event, fall out, flow, go, happen, happening, incident, juvenile, occasion, occur, pass, phenomenon, place, rise, take place, transpire, work, young, youngish, youngling), صغير الحيوان الثديي, شاب (admix, boy, chap, contaminate, lad, sprig, stud, tinge, young, young man, youth, youthful). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | новак (acolyte, apprentice, catechumen, cub, fresher, freshman, greener, infant, mug, neophyte, novice, tiro, tyro), малкото на животно (kid), младок (colt, fledgeling, fledgling, sapling, seedling, shaveling, shaver, snip, snippet, sprig, sprout), младеж (adolescent, juvenile, lad, stripling, young man, younker), живо палаво дете. (various references) | |
Chinese | 年轻人 (stripling), 小伙子 (lad, young fellow), 少年 (juvenile). (various references) | |
Czech | výrostek (adolescent, stripling, teenager), mladík (boy, chap, lad, laddie, stripling, young man, youths), kluk (bloke, boy, fellow, guy, Jack, knave, lad, son), chlapec (boy, date, lad, laddie, man, son). (various references) | |
Danish | ung (young, youth). (various references) | |
Dutch | jongeling (youth), jongeheer (prick, youth), borst (bosom, breast, chest, teat, youth). (various references) | |
Esperanto | junulo (youth). (various references) | |
Faeroese | unglingi (youth). (various references) | |
Farsi | پسربچه (Boy, Callan, Lad, Page), نوباوه (Sprig, Young), جوانک (Callan, Chap, Lad, Sprig, Youngling). (various references) | |
French | jeune homme (young, young man, youngish, youth), jeune cheval (young horse), garçon, enfant (young), ado (youth). (various references) | |
Frisian | feint (attendant, fiancé, servant, youth). (various references) | |
German | Junge (boy, chap, cub, fellow, guy, Jack, kid, kitten, knave, lad, laddie, male child, nestling, offspring, oh boy!, pup, puppy, young, young one). (various references) | |
Greek | νεαρός (budding, youth), νεανίσκοσ (stripling, younker), παιδί (bairn, boy, boyo, child, children, cove, guy, kid, lad, moppet, younker). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יל" (boy, child, son, youth), פרחח (brat, hoodlum, hooligan, ragamuffin, roughneck, rowdy, tearaway, urchin), עלם (lad, sprig, stripling, youth), עויל (boy, villain, wicked), זאטוט (boy, hoodlum, kid, small boy, tyke, urchin), בחור (chap, fellow, guy, lad, young man), טירון (callow, greenhorn, neophyte, novice, tyro), צעירון, צעיר (junior, juvenile, lad, young, young man), ער (boy, child, lad, laddie, stripling, youth). (various references) | |
Hungarian | siheder, ifjú (juvenile, lad, stripling, youthful). (various references) | |
Icelandic | ungdómur (youth). (various references) | |
Indonesian | budak (servant, slave). (various references) | |
Italian | ragazzo (boy, boyfriend, children, guy, Jack, kid, lad, nipper, youth), giovinetto (boy), giovanotto (lad, stripling, young man), giovane (green, junior, juvenile, young, young man, young woman, youth, youthful). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 小僧 (young Buddhist priest). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "ぞう (young Buddhist priest), わかぞう (greenhorn, neophyte), じゃくね"しゃ, じゃくね"もの. (various references) | |
Manx | scollag (boy, lad, scholar, stripling, youth), hessian, fer aeg (calf of whale). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ungdom (juvenile, youth). (various references) | |
Papiamen | hobensitu (youth), hobensito (youth), hoben (young, youth). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | youngsteray.(various references) | |
Polish | młodzieniec (youth). (various references) | |
Portuguese | jovem (boy, house-boy, juvenile, kid, lad, laddie, sapling, stripling, tender, young, youngling, youth, youthful). (various references) | |
Romanian | tânãr (adolescent, boy, childish, colt, juvenile, kid, lad, male, shaver, stripling, young, youth, youthful), pici (boy, brat, chit, kid, nipper, urchin, whelp), june (boy, green, stripling, young, youth), bãiat (beggar, boy, caddie, chap, child, fellow, guy, Jack, lad, scout, son, youth), adolescent (adolescent, greenhorn, juvenile, stripling, teen-ager, teens, youth). (various references) | |
Russian | юноша (juvenile, lad, shaveling, stripling, yonker), мальчик (boy, call-boy, house-boy, lad, man child, pot-boy, powder-monkey), детеныш (calf, cub). (various references) | |
Scottish | òganach (a youth, youth). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mladić (bachelor, lad, sapling, stripling), dečak (boy, nipper). (various references) | |
Spanish | joven (girl, junior, juvenile, kid, lad, little, teen, teenage, young, young man, young woman, youth, youthful), jovencito (stripling, youngling). (various references) | |
Sranan | yonkuman (youth). (various references) | |
Swahili | kijana (youth). (various references) | |
Swedish | unge (baby, bairn, calf, child, cub, infant, Joey, kid, kiddie, kiddy, offspring, whelp, young), ungdom (adolescence, adolescent, adolscent, juvenescence, juvenility, youth), pojkspoling (stripling, whippersnapper, whipster). (various references) | |
Turkish | yavru (baby, child, cub, little one, offspring, whelp, young, young animal), genç (adolescent, gossoon, green, junior, juvenile, sapling, teen, teenager, teeny, whelp, young, young man, youngish, youth, youthful), delikanlı (a slip of a boy, adolescent, boy, conceited pup, gossoon, juvenescent, killer, lad, laddie, palikar, pup, puppy, sapling, sprig, stripling, teen, teenager, teeny, whelp, young man, youth), delíkanli (youth), çocuk (baby, bairn, brat, child, chit, infant, infantile, junior, juvenile, kid, mite, moppet, nipper, paed-, seed, son). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | юнак (adolescent, adult, juvenile, lad, shaveling, sprig, stripling, yearling, youngling, younker, youth), хлопчик, хлопець (boche, bod, boy, chap, dog, duck, fellow, lad), маля (baby, calf, whippet, youngling), парубча. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người thanh niên (adolescent), đứa con trai, đứa bé con. (various references) | |
Welsh | bachgennyn (lad, little boy). (various references) | |
Zulu | insizwa (youth). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "youngster": youngsters. (additional references) | |
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"Youngster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: yongster. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "youngster" (pronounced yu"ngster) |
| 4 | -ng s t er | gangster. |
| 3 | -s t er | dumpster, duster, Easter, adjuster, administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blister, blockbuster, bluster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, ester, faster, Feaster, fester, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangbuster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, harvester, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, juster, keister, kiester, lackluster, laster, Leister, Lister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, minister, Minster, Mister, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, pollster, polyester, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, semester, sequester, shyster, sinister, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, tester, thruster, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, trimester, twister, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, Wester, zoster. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-n-o-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: sturgeon, tourneys, youngers, youngest. | |
-2 letters: eryngos, groynes, gurnets, gurneys, surgeon, tenours, tongers, tongues, tonsure, tourney, yogurts, younger. | |
-3 letters: ergots, erugos, eryngo, genros, gentry, goners, grouse, grouts, grouty, groyne, grunts, gurnet, gurney, guyots, gyrons, gyrose, nestor, noters, ouster, outers, oyster, rogues, rouens, rouges, routes, rugose, senryu, sentry, snouty, souter, stogey, stoner, stoney, storey, stoure. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-n-o-r-s-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: youngsters. | |
+2 letters: courtesying. | |
+3 letters: granulocytes, ungenerosity. | |
+4 letters: agranulocytes, unrighteously, vertiginously. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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