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youngest

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1. youngest - Noun

2. youngest - Adjective

Derived from young

Meaning

superlative form of young: most young

Most recently begun or formed.
I may be the youngest in my family but I still resent being referred to as the baby.

(card games) Receiving dealt cards last, i.e. immediately before the next deal to the eldest.

youngest (plural youngests)

The youngest child in a family, or individual in a group.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes. George Bernard Shaw

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land! Yasser Arafat

I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted. Abby Sunderland

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists. Stanislaw Ulam

The youngest thorns are the sharpest. Irish Proverb

The youngest kitten already chases mice. Esperanto Proverb

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