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younker

younker noun: a young man; a lad, youngster.

Noun

younker (plural younkers)

  1. (archaic) A young man; a lad, youngster.
    • “Jim,” says he, “I reckon we’re fouled, you and me, and we’ll have to sign articles. I’d have had you but for that there lurch, but I don’t have no luck, not I; and I reckon I’ll have to strike, which comes hard, you see, for a master mariner to a ship’s younker like you, Jim.”1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
  2. (obsolete) A young gentleman or knight.
    • So foorth they went, and both together giusted;
      But that same younker soone was overthrowne1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (obsolete) A novice; a simpleton; a dupe.
    • Trimmed like a younker prancing to his love!c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  4. junker

Proper noun capitalized: Younker

Younker (plural Younkers)

  1. A surname.

younker meaning in Urdu

younker in Urdu

بچہ, لڑکا

Forms of younker

Noun
pluralyounkers
alternative formyonker
Proper noun
pluralYounkers

Origin of younker

Borrowed from Middle Dutch joncker (Dutch jonker, jonkheer), a compound equivalent to jong (“young”) + here (“lord”). Compare junker.

Questions about younker

What does younker mean?
Younker means a young man; a lad, youngster.
What is younker in Urdu?
Younker in Urdu is بچہ, لڑکا. See Younker meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is younker?
Younker can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of younker?
The plural of younker is younkers.

Words near younker in the dictionary

  1. youngthly
  2. Youngtown
  3. youngun
  4. younguns
  5. Younis
  6. younker
  7. younkers
  8. Younkin
  9. Younkins
  10. YouNower
  11. YouNowers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: younker (page history and authors); Younker (page history and authors); younker (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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