younger

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋɡə(r)

Adjective

younger

1. comparative form of young: more young

   Our neighbor spent his younger years in England.

   Reading this book takes me back to my younger days.

Antonyms

• elder
• older

Translations

in an earlier period of life

• Belarusian: малодшы (be) (malódšy)
• Czech: mladší (cs)
• German: jünger (de)
• Italian: minore (it)
• Japanese: 年下の (ja) (とししたの, toshishita no)
• Khmer: ក្មេងជាង (km) (kmeeng jieng)
• Polish: młodszy (pl)
• Russian: младший (ru) (mládšij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: млађи (sh)

  Roman: mlađi (sh)

• Slovak: mladší (sk)
• Slovene: mlajši (sl)
• Swedish: yngre (sv)
• Ukrainian: молодший (uk) (molódšyj)
• Volapük: yunikum (vo)
• Yiddish: ייִנגער (yi)

Noun

younger (plural youngers)

1. (rare) One who is younger than another.
   • 1882, L. H. Apaque, A baker's dozen (page 102)

     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.

Antonyms

• elder