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Meaning of YOUNGSTER

Pronunciation:  'yungstur

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  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"
 
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 Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke
 
 See Also: bairn, bambino, buster, changeling, child's body, foster-child, imp, juvenile, juvenile person, kiddy, monkey, orphan, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, preschooler, pupil, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, schoolchild, silly, sprog, toddler, tot, urchin, waif, yearling

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Young"ster\, n.
A young person; a youngling; a lad. [Colloq.] ``He felt
himself quite a youngster, with a long life before him.''
--G. Eliot.
 

 

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