tiddlerUKinformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

a child
childWhen I was a child the summers seemed to go on for ever.
boyThere's a new boy in my class.
girlThe girl's name is Sally.
kidI'm off to pick up the kids from school.
kiddieI saw her with a little kiddie in a pushchair.
little oneThe little ones must be hungry by now.
Scott leaped to the rescue when he spotted the youngster in difficulty.
At that time, I was still a wide-eyed youngster.那时候我仍然是个单纯的孩子。
Sports stars are role models for thousands of youngsters.体育明星是成千上万青少年模仿的榜样。
The study revealed that Asian youngsters are streaking ahead in the race to get into university.研究显示，亚洲年轻人在争取入读大学的竞争中遥遥领先。
Most supporting bands tend to be youngsters, and rarely upstage the star.大多数助兴乐队由年轻乐手组成，很少会抢歌星的风头。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Young people
adolescence
adolescent
baby
boyhood
emo
laddish
laddishness
larrikin
mall rat
minor
skinhead
stripling
Teddy boy
teen
teenager
teenybopper
young lady/manidiom
youth
youth culture
yute

youngster | American Dictionary

youngster
noun[ C ]
us/ˈjʌŋ·stər/
a young person:
The program was designed to find summer jobs for city youngsters ages 14 to 21.

Examples of youngster

youngster
If so, then the gains evidenced by these youngsters may continue to serve beneficial protective functions in future years.
Prevention programs should target these youngsters, as they are particularly at risk, even in young adulthood.
On the other hand, the youngster who appears physically less mature is at risk to be socially marginalized.
The reports go on to say that marriage between the farm's youngsters and servants was not common, but did occur.
Those who chose to participate completed an in-person assessment session that involved extensive interviews and questionnaire completion by youngsters and their primary caregiver.
They do not involve the entire family but only the youngster.
Participating in the intifada was an opportunity for youngsters to prove their manhood and to impose themselves in the community.
The exhausted and tearful youngster learnt that 'you cannot afford to forget things ' (p. 57).
Although the youngsters in her experiments have some difficulty interpreting changeof-state verbs, they were never asked to interpret other types of verbs.
As youngsters move from adolescence to young adulthood, they are expected to adopt behaviour that is socially approved and normative.
Instead, it was deemed normal that youngsters spend their money on clothes, entertainment or consumer durables, or that they should save for marriage.
From there, such youngsters could carry this information throughout the alleys and tenements, along the thoroughfares and into the shops where people gadded and gossiped.
Parents' adherence to traditional values and behaviors may have an impact on the youngsters' drug use.
For these children, offending may be considered as part of the context of child development in which youngsters learn prosocial behaviors by trial and error.
What research there has been in the area of vocabulary skills in late talkers has generally involved experimental studies with older language-impaired youngsters.
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