youngster

Other forms of youngster

plural

youngsters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about youngster

What does youngster mean?

youngster means "a young person of either sex".

How many syllables are in youngster?

youngster has 2 syllables: young-ster. The stress falls on "young". In IPA it is /ˈjʌŋstɚ/.

What is another word for youngster?

Close synonyms include child, kid, minor, shaver, nipper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is youngster a common word?

youngster is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.