Word

youngster, n.
(youngsters)
freq. cnt. 4

a young person of either sex
<noun.person> freq. cnt.: 207 freq. cnt.: 148 freq. cnt.: 53 freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 2

child fry kid minor nestling nipper shaver small fry tiddler tike tyke youngster

sample sentences

"she writes books for children"
"they're just kids"
"`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

childly childhood childhood

semantic pointers

part meronym

child's body

hypernym

juvenile, juvenile person

hyponym

bairn buster changeling child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child foster-child, foster child, fosterling imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag kiddy, kiddie orphan peanut pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny poster child preschooler, kindergartner, kindergartener silly sprog toddler, yearling, tot, bambino urchin waif, street child