YOUNGSTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does youngster mean? 

• YOUNGSTER (noun)
  The noun YOUNGSTER has 1 sense:

1. a young person of either sex

  Familiarity information: YOUNGSTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YOUNGSTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young person of either sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster

Context example:

'tiddler' is a British term for youngster

Hypernyms ("youngster" is a kind of...):

juvenile; juvenile person (a young person, not fully developed)

Meronyms (parts of "youngster"):

child's body (the body of a human child)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "youngster"):

peanut (a young child who is small for his age)

street child; waif (a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned)

urchin (poor and often mischievous city child)

bambino; toddler; tot; yearling (a young child)

sprog (a child)

silly (a word used for misbehaving children)

kindergartener; kindergartner; preschooler (a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten)

poster child (a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes)

picaninny; piccaninny; pickaninny ((ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child)

bairn (a child: son or daughter)

orphan (a child who has lost both parents)

kiddie; kiddy (informal term for a young child)

imp; monkey; rapscallion; rascal; scalawag; scallywag; scamp (one who is playfully mischievous)

foster-child; foster child; fosterling (a child who is raised by foster parents)

child prodigy; infant prodigy; wonder child (a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age)

changeling (a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy)

buster (a robust child)

 Context examples 

The mountains likely formed no more than 100 million years ago — mere youngsters relative to the 4.56-billion-year age of the solar system — and may still be in the process of building.

(The Icy Mountains of Pluto, NASA)

I learned when I was only a youngster.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was a wild youngster, I know—not worse than others of my class.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Who’s the youngster beside him?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Still, nobody appeared, to claim the dusty youngster from Blunderstone, Suffolk.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Youngsters with a high ScreenQ score had lower brain white matter quality, which affects the formation of myelin.

(Too Much Screen Time Changes Structure of Toddlers' Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers cited challenges collecting data, mainly getting youngsters to lie still during the brain scan, particularly children with ADHD-associated behavior.

(Atypical brain development observed in preschoolers with ADHD symptoms, National Institutes of Health)

But now, youngster, I have answered you freely, and I trow it is time that you answered me.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Results showed youngsters using probiotics lost a 'significantly' higher number of pounds compared to those who didn't.

(Supplements of 'Good Bacteria' Can Enhance Weight Loss in Dieters, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When I was a youngster I have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)