Antonyms for youngster

Grammar : Noun

Spell : yuhng-ster

Phonetic Transcription : ˈyʌŋ stər

Definition of youngster

Origin : 1580s, from young + -ster. Earlier was youngling, from Old English geongling.

noun child

Example sentences :

But now, youngster, I have answered you freely, and I trow it is time that you answered me.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

"But they are true, old Nonesuch," said the youngster sadly.
Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa

"And at last he was crowned emperor," suggested the youngster.
Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa

The youngster had a way of stopping for no reason whatever and just standing there.
Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius

And all the better, I dare say, for the thrashing he got when a youngster, from the Vermont tailor.
Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper

It is true that I ran away from my mother when a youngster, and thought little of it!
Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper

It wasn't so very many years, you see, since he had been a youngster himself!
Extract from : « Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts » by Roy Rutherford Bailey

He resented it in this youngster who had fought so gamely with death.
Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin

But I took you for a youngster, you know, a regular ten-year-old runaway.
Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley

Up till then he had tolerated the youngster without all that fuss.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

Synonyms for youngster

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