'Stripling' definitions:
Definition of 'stripling'
(from WordNet)
noun
Definition of 'Stripling'
From: GCIDE
- Stripling \Strip"ling\, n. [Dim. of strip; as if a small strip from the main stock or steam.] A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. [1913 Webster]
- Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. --1 Sam. xvii. 56. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stripling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adolescent,
- arriviste,
- baby,
- boy,
- bright young man,
- comer,
- fledgling,
- hobbledehoy,
- hopeful,
- infant,
- junior,
- juvenal,
- juvenile,
- lad,
- laddie,
- minor,
- modern,
- modern generation,
- modern man,
- modernist,
- modernizer,
- neologism,
- neologist,
- neology,
- neonate,
- neoteric,
- neoterism,
- neoterist,
- new generation,
- new man,
- nouveau riche,
- novus homo,
- parvenu,
- pubescent,
- rising generation,
- sapling,
- schoolboy,
- slip,
- son,
- sprig,
- tad,
- teenager,
- teener,
- teenybopper,
- upstart,
- young hopeful,
- young man,
- young person,
- Young Turk,
- younger,
- youngest,
- youngling,
- youngster,
- youth