young

adj

1. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.

   “a lamb is a young sheep”

   “these picture books are for young readers”

   “Come skydiving with us. Come on, you're only young once!”

   “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!”

   “"What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."”

2. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.

   “the age of space travel is still young”

   “a young business”

   “[…] while the Fears of the People were young, they were encreas’d strangely by several odd Accidents […]”

   “Look at that sky, life's begun / Nights are warm and the days are young”

   “A team of Irish astronomers have captured an out-of-this-world image of one of the youngest stars known to scientists.”

3. advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.

   “And thou, our Mother, twice two centuries young, Bend with bright shafts of truth thy bow fresh-strung.”

   “How young is your dog?”

   “Her grandmother turned 70 years young last month.”

4. Junior (of two related people with the same name).

   “The young Mr. Chester must be in the wrong, and the old Mr. Chester must be in the right.”

5. Early (of a decade of life).

   “1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41, […] Miss Hessy is as pretty a girl as eye can see, in her young twenties and a bit of a fortune to boot.”

   “Ephraim would be in his young thirties.”

   “[…] while this may appeal to older, better-off shoppers, vast numbers, especially those in their teens and young twenties, still want fast, cheap fashion.”

6. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.

   “Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.”

   “My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.”

7. Of or belonging to the early part of life.

   “The cynical world soon shattered my young dreams.”

8. (obsolete)Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.

   “Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.”

noun

1. (often)Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.

   “The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.”

   “The lion's young are curious about the world around them.”

   “There is a logic in this behavior: a mother will not come into breeding condition again unless her young is ready to be weaned or has died, so killing a baby may hasten […]”

verb

1. (informal)To become or seem to become younger.

   “The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).”

2. (informal)To cause to appear younger.

   “Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.”

3. To exhibit younging.

   “Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.”

   “The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas.”

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