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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Youngster \Young"ster\, noun A young person; a youngling; a lad. [Colloq.] ''He felt himself quite a youngster, with a long life before him.'' --G. Eliot.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
youngster
noun: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "'tiddler' is a British term for youngsters" [syn: {child}, {kid}, {minor}, {shaver}, {nipper}, {small fry}, {tiddler}, {tike}, {tyke}, {fry}, {nestling}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "youngster": breed, brood, bud, chick, children, chit, descendants, descent, family, fruit, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, heirs, hostages to fortune, inheritors, issue, juvenile, kid, kids, lineage, little ones, moppet, new generation, offspring, posterity, progeny, rising generation, seed, sons, succession, treasures, youngling, younglings, youngsters, youth
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