Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young person; a disciple.
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- adjective
comparative form ofyoung : moreyoung - noun rare One who is younger than another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father
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Examples
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Now, in America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality.
DC's 2008
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Molina the younger is a great receiver with a dynamite arm, and he enters his first full season at Peoria. ...
USATODAY.com - Prospects to watch in NL teams' farm systems 2002
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Getting his kicks: Special teams coordinator Dave Toub said Adam Podlesh was his No. 1 target all offseason and he's excited to get what he called a younger version of Brad Maynard.
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Getting his kicks: Special teams coordinator Dave Toub said Adam Podlesh was his No. 1 target all offseason and he's excited to get what he called a younger version of Brad Maynard.
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Eichenbaum wants no part of it, and is dismayed by what he calls the younger generation's lack of respect for Reform Judaism's ideological heritage.
J. Weekly 2010
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His international career – if it starts at all – will not last very long but those of us the wrong side of 40 whose hearts feel sick when someone 10 years younger is described as a "veteran" will hope Davies's tenacity serves England as well as it has served himself.
Kevin Davies's England reward is deserved – but it could be short-lived Rob Bagchi 2010
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They were all of the Hansons in younger, fresher years, or at least of people who looked like them.
Babies Gary Moshimer 2010
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Of course not: the elder slaying the ambitions of the younger is perfectly permissible.
Why treat Ed Miliband as a younger son who should 'know his place'? Katharine Viner 2010
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Our younger is Greta, whose name is hanging around down at 694, right about where it was when she was born.
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In the early days of using email (circa 1993, in younger days in my own life), I responded to a spam advertising email with a string of profanities and suggestions of suicide for the spammer.
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