stripling

n.
An adolescent youth.

[Middle English, possibly from strip, strip. See strip².]

(STRIP-ling)

noun
An adolescent youth.

Etymology
Middle English, possibly from strip.

Usage
"He (Tryambakrai Mazmudar) was an experienced man of mature age and knew the world. I was yet a stripling of eighteen without any experience of the world." — M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth, 1927.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
  Synonyms: adolescent, teenager

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - grønskolling, unge menneske

Nederlands (Dutch)
jongeman

Français (French)
n. - jouvenceau (littér)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Bürschchen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - νεαρούλης

Italiano (Italian)
sbarbatello

Português (Portuguese)
n. - jovem (m) (f)

Русский (Russian)
юноша, подросток

Español (Spanish)
n. - muchacho, mozalbete

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - pojkvasker, spoling

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
年轻人, 小伙子

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 年輕人, 小伙子

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 풋내기, 애송이

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 青二才, 小娘

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) فتى‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נער, עלם, בחור‬

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