1. young(n = noun.animal) offspring - any immature animal;
is a kind of animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
has particulars: hatchling, orphan, young mammal, young bird, spat, young fish
2. young(n = noun.person) loretta young - United States film and television actress (1913-2000);
is a kind of actress
3. young(n = noun.person) whitney moore young jr., whitney young - United States civil rights leader (1921-1971);
is a kind of civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker
4. young(n = noun.person) thomas young - 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);
is a kind of egyptologist, physicist
5. young(n = noun.person) lester willis young, pres young - United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959);
is a kind of saxist, saxophonist
6. young(n = noun.person) edward young - English poet (1683-1765);
is a kind of poet
7. young(n = noun.person) cy young, danton true young - United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955);
is a kind of ballplayer, baseball player
8. young(n = noun.person) brigham young - 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);
is a kind of religious leader
9. young(n = noun.group) youth - young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt"
is a kind of age bracket, age group, cohort
Antonym: aged
Derived form adjective young1
1. young(a = adj.all) immature - (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"
Antonym: old
Derived forms noun young9, noun youngness1
2. young(s = adj.all) new - (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn"
3. young(s = adj.all) vernal, youthful - suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh; "he is young for his age"
4. young(s = adj.all) - being in its early stage; "a young industry"; "the day is still young"
Derived form noun youngness1
5. young(s = adj.all) unseasoned, untested, untried - not tried or tested by experience; "unseasoned artillery volunteers"; "still untested in battle"; "an illustrator untried in mural painting"; "a young hand at plowing"
1. Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn. [1913 Webster]
"For he so young and tender was of age." [1913 Webster]
"“Whom the gods love, die young,” has been too long carelessly said; . . . whom the gods love, live young forever." [1913 Webster]
2. Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree. [1913 Webster]
"While the fears of the people were young." [1913 Webster]
3. Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak. [1913 Webster]
"Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this." [1913 Webster]
The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively. [1913 Webster]
"[The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed
Their callow young." [1913 Webster]
young, adj. & n.
--adj. (younger; youngest)
1 not far advanced in life, development, or existence; not yet old.
2 immature or inexperienced.
3 felt in or characteristic of youth (young love; young ambition).
4 representing young people (Young Conservatives; Young England).
5 distinguishing a son from his father (young Jones).
6 (younger) a distinguishing one person from another of the same name (the younger Pitt). b Sc. the heir of a landed commoner.
--n. (collect.) offspring, esp. of animals before or soon after birth.
Idiom:
with young (of an animal) pregnant. young blood see BLOOD. younger hand Cards the second player of two. young fustic see FUSTIC. young hopeful see HOPEFUL. young idea the child's mind. young lady colloq. a girlfriend or sweetheart. young man a boyfriend or sweetheart. young person Law (in the UK) a person generally between 14 and
17 years of age. Young Pretender Charles Stuart (1720-80), grandson of James II and claimant to the British throne. young thing archaic or colloq. an indulgent term for a young person.
Young Turk
1 a member of a revolutionary party in Turkey in 1908.
2 a young person eager for radical change to the established order. young turk offens. a violent child or youth. young 'un colloq. a youngster. young woman colloq. a girlfriend or sweetheart.
Derivative:
youngish adj. youngling n.
Etymology:
OE g(e)ong f. Gmc
N newness, novelty, recency, immaturity, youth, gloss of novelty, innovation, renovation, modernism, mushroom, parvenu, latest fashion, new, novel, recent, fresh, green, young, evergreen, raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty, virgin, untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten, fire-new, span-new, late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau, new-born, nascent, neonatal, new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged, of yesterday, just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion, in, hip, vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid, fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint, spick and span, newly, afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day, latterly, of late, not long ago, a short time ago, di novello tutto par bello, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius, una scopa nuova spazza bene.
N youth, juvenility, juvenescence, juniority, infancy, babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood, incunabula, minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom, cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage, prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life, heyday of youth, school days, rising generation, young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens, in statu pupillari, younger, junior, hebetic, unfledged, youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm, youth a the glad season of life.
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