Definitions for youngest

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youngest young·est

Spelling: [yuhng-gist]

IPA: /ˈyʌŋ gɪst/

Youngest is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 267 anagrams from letters in youngest (egnostuy).

Definitions for youngest

noun

1. a person who is the least old of a group, as the youngest member of a family:
2. those who have youth; young persons collectively:
3. young offspring:

Idioms

1. with young, (of an animal) pregnant.

adjective

1. superl. of young.
2. being in the first or early stage of life or growth; youthful; not old:
3. having the appearance, freshness, vigor, or other qualities of youth.
4. of or relating to youth:
5. inexperienced or immature.
6. not far advanced in years in comparison with another or others.
7. junior, as applied to the younger of two persons having the same name:
8. being in an early stage generally, as of existence, progress, operation, development, or maturity; new; early:
9. representing or advocating recent or progressive tendencies, policies, or the like.

Origin of youngest

before 900; Middle English yong(e), Old English geong; cognate with Dutch jong, German jung, Old Norse ungr, Gothic jungs; akin to Latin juvenis

Examples for youngest

I ask our youngest citizens to believe the evidence of your eyes.

Republican Elise Stefanik, 30, of upstate New York, just became the youngest woman ever elected to the House of Representatives.

"Well, go on," interposed the youngest and quietest of the group.

The eldest was about the age of twelve, the youngest about seven.

Average age ranges from 45 to 65, with her youngest client at 18 and the oldest in her 80s.

You'll find him rocking the cradle of Tippoo Wellington, my youngest son!

Wahlberg grew up the youngest of nine children in a broken home in the rough Dorchester section of Boston.

“The youngest old man any of us knows,” an unnamed friend of Atlantic Publisher David Bradley said of Hughes.

This week, on December 10th, Human Rights Day, she will receive the Nobel Prize—the youngest person ever to be honored.

Her sister, Norah, the youngest of the family, had told of her first baby.