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Children vs Younger - What's the difference?

children | younger |

As nouns the difference between children and younger

is that children is while younger is (rare) one who is younger than another.

As an adjective younger is

(young).

children

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (archaic)

Noun

(head)
  • .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

    younger

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (young)
  • Our neighbor spent his younger years in England.
    Reading this book takes me back to my younger days.

    Antonyms

    * elder * older

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) One who is younger than another.
  • * 1882 , L. H. Apaque, A baker's dozen (page 102)
  • Hugh and Charlie also played fairly well, so perhaps it was not wonderful that James, who had always regarded cricket as a childish waste of time, felt rather at a loss, and did not care to display his inferiority to his youngers .

    Antonyms

    * elder