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younger
1[ yuhng-ger ]
adjective
- comparative of young.
- (usually initial capital letter) (used to designate the junior of two related persons bearing the same name):
Charles the Younger ruled after his father abdicated.
noun
- the junior of two persons in age (often used with a possessive pronoun):
Her brother is seven years her younger.
Younger
2[ yuhng-ger ]
noun
- Thomas Coleman Cole, 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
Word History and Origins
Origin of younger1
Example Sentences
Xi is also aware that China has a disheartened younger generation worried about their future.
Like his younger brother Jano, the Argentina international himself could have had a career in that sport, but decided instead to follow his father Mario and his older brother Alan and stick with football.
I can remember being younger and looking at all the bird books and figurines in my gramma’s house, thinking, “’s this lady’s deal with birds?”
During the tumult, some younger members of the Vietnamese community, already questioning their status on the sidelines of a local political infrastructure that didn’t include them, inserted themselves in the conversation.
That moment is one she looks back on with immense pride, though it was a photograph of her taken with her younger son that day that would inspire what followed.
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