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stripling

noun as in youngster

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The heir apparent (a stripling of 61) is not universally popular.

The bellicose ardor of the stripling seemed to strike the royal envoy even more forcibly than anything he had yet seen.

Oh, what a foolish stripling Am I, who here about four days have wandered In quest of a mere phantom!

An ambitious stripling has only to brandish his sword and shout a few magniloquent words to induce them to rush to certain death.

Goodness is proper to the aged; it is their sole glory; why should this milky stripling bring it into disrepute?

I went in a stripling and grew into manhood with muscled arms big as a bookkeeper's legs.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stripling, such as: adolescent, boy, fledgling, lad, minor, and youth.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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