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ADJECTIVE young COMPARATIVE younger SUPERLATIVE youngest

younger English

Meaning younger meaning

What does younger mean?

younger

(= jr.) used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father John Junior John Smith, Jr.

Synonyms younger synonyms

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Topics younger topics

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Examples younger examples

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Simple sentences

If I were younger, I would go abroad to study.
The younger generation looks at things differently.
Tom likes Mary's younger sister more than he likes Mary.
Tom is three years younger than Mary.
Tom is three years younger than Mary is.
I don't have a younger sister.
Mary is 21 years younger than Tom, but Tom is 22 times richer than Mary.
This is something I wore when I was much younger.
She's younger than his daughter.
My younger brother is yelling loudly.
You're no younger than I am.
Tom is younger than Mary.
Tom looks younger than Mary.
My grandmother used to use her sewing machine a lot when she was younger.
My younger brother is watching TV.
My younger brother watches TV.
Look how they all speak ill of me behind my back because I married a woman thirty years younger than me.
We cannot distinguish her from her younger sister.
I wish I were younger.
What would you do if you were ten years younger?
I am no younger than you are.
I wish Tom were my younger brother.
Television shows violence, which influences, above all, younger people.
Then the younger brother set off, and the elder remained behind.
Are you younger than him?
Your story reminded me of my younger days.
Lucy's mother told her to take care of her younger sister.
The actress looks younger than she really is.
At that time, my mother was younger than I am now.
John is my younger brother.
John is not as old as Bill; he is much younger.
Sam is two years younger than Tom.

Movie subtitles

But in the end he favoured my younger sister.
I assume you mean people of about age eight or younger?
A story told by the elders, while the younger generation never seems to have time to learn.
If only I were younger.
If we were younger men. aw, it wouldn't look pretty for us to be at fisticuffs.
I'm a widower, too, but for me she'd have to be younger.
And me younger and more beautiful.
I mean, when you were younger, of course.
I'm not like most of the younger people here.
To make space for younger people, don't you think?
And, like a torch, enlighten a younger generation inspired to follow him.
Mother was younger than I when she married you.
I wish you were ten years younger, Gatewood!
Are there any of your younger sisters out in the society?
I mean, when you were younger.
No? I think you grow younger every year.
I was a lot younger then, and a lot foolisher.
When I was younger, I could tell you.
The fact is I'm, er growing younger.
A woman in love with a man much younger than herself.
Time is slipping by and we're not getting any younger.
Carmen Castellano is younger and already wed.
Will you be comfortable under a former, fellow clerk? Working under a younger man?
In fact, you've never looked better. Or younger.
I know, sir, but we were younger then and there were no such thing as Nazis.
I've heard of you but I was afraid you were a younger man.
And from that moment, I've felt younger.
This is my younger sister.
Still, younger men are really undependable.
If you'd prefer a younger man, how about me? I'd like that.
But on the other hand, she knew I was. 20 years younger than she was!
So much younger I'm taking a beautiful young girl with me on my travels. Yes, sir. Is there anything more?
Mitsuko is younger than me, but she acts like my older sister.
I remember, when I was younger, there was a well-known writer who used to dart down the back way whenever he saw me coming.
I was younger then, and tremendously conscious of the family honor.
But I'm not getting any younger.
My husband is a perfectly normal man in other respects, but he has the delusion he gets younger every time he beats himself up.

News and current affairs

And his younger brother, Dzhokhar, recovering from gunshot wounds in a Boston hospital while waiting to be put on trial for his life, seems to have been a pathetic follower who acted less out of deep conviction than out of fraternal love.
Across the Middle East people are younger, and their political leaders older, than the world average.
Moreover, at younger ages, there are fewer cultural barriers to education for girls, and there is less pressure for children to contribute labor.
Since the saving of younger savers is now high and the dissaving of the older dissavers is low, the net saving rate is high.
Instead of emphasizing his design's pomposity, the younger Speer insisted on its environmental friendliness.
It is now four centuries since the birth of a masterpiece whose author and hero both seem younger than we do.
Bavaria's government increased the workweek from 38.5 to 40 hours for older employees and to 42 hours for younger employees.
The younger generation is comfortable with sharing precisely because they know how to control it.
In addition, all three of the younger men are rivals, not allies.
The other target audience consists of younger children, whose openness and inborn curiosity have not yet been stifled by formal schooling.
True, the cabinet is being reshuffled to elevate younger ministers.
The shades of gray have real consequences for policy towards Iran: as an Iranian political scientist recently put it at a seminar in Germany, younger people in Iran do feel themselves to be Muslims, and Iran will never become a secular society.
These younger people - the Iranian scholar claimed - are first of all Iranian nationalists, and would like to dissociate themselves from Middle Eastern politics, in particular the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Ahmadinejad is a representative of the younger activists in the anti-Shah revolution of a quarter-century ago.
For example, Kim Il Sung groomed his son Kim Jong-il as his successor for about two decades before the younger Kim took power in 1994.
A member of a collective called Najeen (Survivors), Rasheed is part of a vanguard of younger artists, writers, and filmmakers whose work attests to their commitment to art in the midst of crisis.
And we expect those younger women to be shorter simply because they have had less time to grow.
Second, we measured the effects of natural selection by noting that women who were shorter and first gave birth when younger had more children.
For a while, everybody played politely along; but the tricky double-think involved in this was exposed when the younger brother, Ed, won the leadership, by a razor-thin margin, in a last-minute upset.
Moreover, younger patients, at least, can better withstand the side effects of cancer treatment.
A welfare state that focuses mainly on the elderly, and does not provide sufficient opportunities for younger generations, is not sustainable.
The high saving rate of Chinese households reflects both the normal high rate of saving among younger generations and the fact that older generations had very little income - and therefore did very little saving - when they were young.
In Poland last autumn, younger voters helped to replace a government whose incipient authoritarianism and xenophobic attitudes threatened to isolate their country.
The most interesting additions to the Central Committee are three younger men, though they have played leading roles in the organization for 20 years or more.
While some will point to Barghouti's election as a victory for the younger generation, not one of his followers will join him.
The other two younger men, Muhammad Dahlan and Jibril Rajoub, built political bases of their own as commanders of security forces in the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank, respectively.
Like Grass, Germans - especially the younger generations, who feel further removed from the events of WWII - are increasingly abandoning the notion that they owe it to Israel to remain its silent, steadfast supporters.

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