younger
/ˈjʌŋɡɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
comparative form of young: more young
noun
One who is younger than another.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Our neighbors' son is younger than our daughter."
- "Reading this book takes me back to my younger days."
- "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."
- "Youngers did not like olders to be mean and bossy."
- "First, the use of Hindi is more among the males than among the females irrespective of the interaction with elders, equals or youngers."
- "A section of semi-structured interview schedule was also included in the research in order to test if youngers face any problem with elders staying with them."
Etymology
* 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈjʌŋɡɚ/
- British English: /ˈjʌŋɡə/