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youngling

/ˈjʌŋlɪŋ/

youngling adjective: young; youthful.

Adjective

youngling (comparative more youngling, superlative most youngling)

  1. (archaic) Young; youthful.

Noun

youngling (plural younglings)

  1. A young person, animal, or plant; chit.
    • More dear […] than younglings to their dam.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52
    • He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you, as with us younglings.1556, Nicholas Ridley, conference with Hugh Latimer
    Synonyms:
    child

youngling meaning in Tamil and Urdu

youngling in Tamil

இளவிலங்கு, இளையர்

youngling in Urdu

نوجوان لڑکا, نوجوان لڑکی

Synonyms of youngling

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Forms of youngling

Adjective
comparativemore youngling
superlativemost youngling
Noun
pluralyounglings

Origin of youngling

From Middle English youngling, ȝongelyng, ȝungling, from Old English ġeongling (“a youth, youngling”), from Proto-West Germanic *jungiling, from Proto-Germanic *jungalingaz, *jungilingaz (“young man, youngling”). Doublet of Yngling. By surface analysis, young + -ling.

Questions about youngling

What does youngling mean?
Youngling means young; youthful.
What is youngling in Tamil?
Youngling in Tamil is இளவிலங்கு, இளையர். See Youngling meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is youngling?
Youngling can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce youngling?
Youngling is pronounced /ˈjʌŋlɪŋ/.

Words near youngling in the dictionary

  1. Youngkin
  2. Youngkins
  3. younglet
  4. younglets
  5. younglike
  6. youngling
  7. younglings
  8. Younglove
  9. Youngloves
  10. youngly
  11. youngman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: youngling (page history and authors); youngling (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); youngling (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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