Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being in an early period of life, development, or growth.
- adjective Newly begun or formed; not advanced.
- adjective Relating to, typical of, or suggestive of youth or early life.
- adjective Lacking experience; immature.
- adjective Being the junior of two people having the same name.
- adjective Geology Being of an early stage in a geologic cycle. Used of bodies of water and land formations.
- noun Young persons considered as a group; youth.
- noun Offspring; brood.
- idiom (with young) Pregnant. Used of an animal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In physical geography, exhibiting an early stage of the geographic cycle, when sculpture or dissection is not far advanced.
- Being in the first or early stage of life; not long born; not yet arrived at maturity or full age; not old: said of animals: as, a young child; a young man; a young horse.
- Being in the first or early stage of growth: as, a young plant; a young tree.
- Being in the first or early part of existence generally; not yet far advanced, of long duration, or of full development; recent; newly come to pass or to be.
- Having the appearance and freshness or vigor of youth; youthful in look or feeling; fresh; vigorous.
- Having little experience; ignorant; raw; green.
- Pertaining or relating to youth; spent or passed during youth; youthful: as, in his younger days he was very hot-headed.
- Junior: applied to the younger of two persons, especially when they have the same name or title: as, young Mr. Thomas Ray called with a message from his father.
- Newly or lately arrived.
- noun Offspring collectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
- noun with child; pregnant.
- adjective Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals.
- adjective Being in the first part, pr period, of growth.
- adjective Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In the
early part ofgrowth orlife ;born not long ago. - adjective As if young; having the look or qualities of a young person.
- adjective Of or belonging to the early
part of life. - adjective Having little
experience ;inexperienced ;unpracticed ;ignorant ;weak . - noun People who are young; young beings.
- noun The younger
generation . - noun
Offspring . - verb To become or seem to become younger
- verb To cause to appear younger
- verb geology To exhibit
younging
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not tried or tested by experience
- adjective being in its early stage
- noun United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)
- noun United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
- adjective (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
- noun young people collectively
- noun United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
- noun United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
- noun United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
- noun English poet (1683-1765)
- noun any immature animal
- adjective suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
- adjective (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
- noun British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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God forgives the inattention at Mass of an old man when he sleeps; of a young man when he loves; and the wandering attention of an _old_ man blessed with a _young_ heart the Almighty will surely pardon, for He Himself must admire beauty, since He made it. '
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I knew there was no chance for Marian and Anne; they're old maids, and I'm young -- _young_.
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He could hardly refrain from a smile when he came across the sentence, "He was young enough to know better," as he substituted in a large illegible hand the word _old_ for _young_.
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"She couldn't hev things a-gwine on so as they had been, and she was gwine to make these yer young ones keep better order;" for Dinah herself, somehow, indulged the illusion that she herself was the soul of order, and it was only the _young uns_, and the everybody else in the house, that were the cause of anything that fell short of perfection in this respect.
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There would not be any thing essentially wrong in an attachment between these young people, if it sprang up naturally; only it would be necessary to impress upon them the fact that they were _young_, and that for years to come their minds should be largely occupied with other matters.
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"She couldn't hev things a gwine on so as they had been, and she was gwine to make these yer young ones keep better order;" for Dinah herself, somehow, indulged the illusion that she, herself, was the soul of order, and it was only the _young uns_, and the everybody else in the house, that were the cause of anything that fell short of perfection in this respect.
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Fled from her heart, yet she is young, is _young_;
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WHEN Foote was one day lamenting his growing old, a _pert_ young fellow asked him what he would give to be as _young_ as he.
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The very best lesson for a horseman, young or old, is colt-breaking; and if in the attempt the _young_ horseman fails to do the colt justice, he will at least do him less injury than the country colt-breaker, or the generality of grooms.
Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding
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Miss Carnaby heard the conversation of her young companions, and she gradually became conscious that William was not a boy; in fact, she began to wonder how she had ever thought so, for he, as she said unto herself, was "certainly a very interesting _young man_."
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