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younger¹

  • /ˈjʌŋɡə/ UK
  • /ˈjʌŋɡɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ʌŋɡə(ɹ)

adjective

  1. comparative comparative form of young: more young Our neighbors' son is younger than our daughter.

adjective

  1. not comparable Synonym of junior.

    Similar: junior

Opposite: elder, older

noun youngers

  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.

Opposite: elder

Younger²

Where it comes from

* 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.

proper noun Youngers

  1. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: junior, little, youth, youthful, youngster, juvenile, older, small, lesser, less, lower, more, fledgling, early, earlier, cadet

adjective

Opposite: elder, older

noun

Opposite: elder

Translations

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adj in an earlier period of life

日本語年下の toshishita no
Portuguêsmais jovem
Deutschjünger
Italianominore
Русскиймла́дший mládšij, младше mladše

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@misc{younger_2026,
  title = {younger},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/younger},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}