youngsternoun [ C ]
uk/ˈjʌŋ.stər/us/ˈjʌŋ.stɚ/C1 a young person, usually an older child:
The scheme is for youngsters between the ages of ten and 16.
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- Scott leaped to the rescue when he spotted the youngster in difficulty.
- At that time, I was still a wide-eyed youngster.
- Sports stars are role models for thousands of youngsters.
- The study revealed that Asian youngsters are streaking ahead in the race to get into university.
- Most supporting bands tend to be youngsters, and rarely upstage the star.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Young people
- adolescence
- adolescent
- boyhood
- delinquent
- emo
- girlhood
- grow
- laddish
- mall rat
- minor
- punk
- skinhead
- Teddy boy
- teens
- tween
- tweenager
- yoof
- young blood
- young lady/man idiom
- yute
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