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younger

adjectiveadjectivenouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈjʌŋɡə//
  • United States//ˈjʌŋɡɚ//

Synonym of junior.

adjective

  1. 1

    Also a form of youngcomparative form of young: more young

    Our neighbors' son is younger than our daughter.

    Reading this book takes me back to my younger days.

adjective

  1. 1

    Synonym of junior.

noun

  1. 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.

Forms

plural
youngers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).