Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A living being that is young, especially a young person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young person; a youth or child.
- noun Any young thing, as an animal, a plant, etc.; anything immature, undeveloped, or recent.
- noun A novice; a new-comer; a beginner.
- Youthful; young.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Young; youthful.
- noun A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
young ;youthful - noun A
youth ; ayoungster ; ayoung animal.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In fact, the English word youngling comes from jüngling.
Archive 2006-01-01 AYDIN 2006
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More than that, the evil one himself keeps appearing in Rand's dreams, wearing uber-melodramatic impossible-to-actually-visualise facial expressions, and calling him 'youngling'.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 1: the Eye of the World (1990) Adam Roberts 2010
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More than that, the evil one himself keeps appearing in Rand's dreams, wearing uber-melodramatic impossible-to-actually-visualise facial expressions, and calling him 'youngling'.
Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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Tarlac as the "youngling" of the Circle, that was fine with him.
Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel Ann Wilson
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One of the officers remarked that "it was after four o'clock," by way of an apology to the "youngling," as he was pleased to term Mr. Hardinge.
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On a pointless tangent, I was surprised just then to discover 'youngling' is an actual word (I was silently quoting Yoda), which possibly explains why I failed repeatedly on the English language questions.
Pocket Gamer | www.pocketgamer.co.uk | Latest additions 2008
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Not the kind of youngling I would hope to rebuild a Clan with, if I were rebuilding Tale'sedrin. "
The Oathbound Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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For the nonce he pulled like a youngling of twenty.
CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010
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But 'Green', well I've had a green beam saber since I was a youngling.
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But the script kicks off with fifteen or so pages of Conan as a youngling.
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