younger

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈjʌŋɡə/
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/ˈjʌŋɡə/ · /ˈjʌŋɡɚ/

Definition of younger

4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (comparative, form-of)comparative form of young: more young
    “Our neighbors' son is younger than our daughter.”
    “Reading this book takes me back to my younger days.”
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adj

  1. (comparative, form-of)comparative form of young: more young
    “Our neighbors' son is younger than our daughter.”
    “Reading this book takes me back to my younger days.”
  2. Synonym of junior.

noun

  1. One who is younger than another.
    “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.”
    “Youngers did not like olders to be mean and bossy.”
    “First, the use of Hindi is more among the males than among the females irrespective of the interaction with elders, equals or youngers.”
    “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.”
    “So, it is necessary to educate our youngers about economy and,^([sic]) school and college education can do this easily.”

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

* 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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