Younger

Younger may refer to:

  • the superiority comparative of "young"
  • Younger (Title), the title traditionally given to the heir apparent to a Laird
  • Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter
  • Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter
  • Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer
  • Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
  • Viscount Younger of Leckie, title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

As family name:

  • Cole Younger (1844-1916), Confederate guerrilla and outlaw

See also:

  • Younger v. Harris, a decision of the United States Supreme Court

Famous quotes containing the word younger:

    In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
    Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

    A woman’s always younger than a man
    At equal years.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    The younger rises when the old doth fall.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)