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Young   /jəŋ/   Listen
Young

adjective
(compar. younger; superl. youngest)
1.
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth.  Synonym: immature.  Antonym: old.
2.
(of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity.  Synonym: new.  "Young corn"
3.
Suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh.  Synonyms: vernal, youthful.
4.
Being in its early stage.  "The day is still young"
5.
Not tried or tested by experience.  Synonyms: unseasoned, untested, untried.  "Still untested in battle" , "An illustrator untried in mural painting" , "A young hand at plowing"
noun
1.
Any immature animal.  Synonym: offspring.
2.
United States film and television actress (1913-2000).  Synonym: Loretta Young.
3.
United States civil rights leader (1921-1971).  Synonyms: Whitney Moore Young Jr., Whitney Young.
4.
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).  Synonym: Thomas Young.
5.
United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959).  Synonyms: Lester Willis Young, Pres Young.
6.
English poet (1683-1765).  Synonym: Edward Young.
7.
United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955).  Synonyms: Cy Young, Danton True Young.
8.
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).  Synonym: Brigham Young.
9.
Young people collectively.  Synonym: youth.  "Youth everywhere rises in revolt"  Antonym: aged.



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"Young" Quotes from Famous Books



... spitting on the ground in token of disgust. "Ye'll both repint being such friends with cannibal savages like them, young gentlemen. They'll turn round on ye some day, and rend and ...
— Off to the Wilds - Being the Adventures of Two Brothers • George Manville Fenn

... the Act—the Puritanic observance of Sunday—was by no means attained. On Sunday, the 8th December, 1907, the police made a desperate attempt to enforce the law; every place of amusement was shut up; lectures, religious concerts, even the social meetings of the Young Men's Christian Association, were rigorously put a stop to. There was, of course, great popular indignation and uproar, and the impromptu performances got up in the streets, while the police looked on sympathetically, are said ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

... Redeemer which mediaeval religion encouraged, frequently modified the whole life of the contemplative; shaping the plastic mind, and often the body too, to its own mould. A good historic example of this law of religious suggestibility is the case of Julian of Norwich. As a young girl, Julian prayed that she might have an illness at thirty years of age, and also a closer knowledge of Christ's pains. She forgot the prayer: but it worked below the threshold as forgotten suggestions often do, and when she was thirty ...
— The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day • Evelyn Underhill

... gloomily, and walking away into the cabin, I sat down very melancholy at the idea of my favourite being sacrificed; to me it appeared quite horrible, and my mother having referred to it, made her fall very much in my good opinion. Alas! I was indeed young and foolish, and little thought what a change would take place in my feelings. As for the birds, as I really did not care for them, I resolved to kill two of them for our day's meal, and returning to the platform I had laid hold of the two that were ...
— The Little Savage • Captain Marryat

... malt which they brewed into beer. The village folk collected other provisions, and assembled in the church house, where there were spits and crocks and other utensils for dressing a feast. Old and young gathered together; the churchwardens' ale was sold freely. The young folk danced, or played at bowls or practised archery, the old people looking gravely on and enjoying the merry-making. Such were the old church ales, ...
— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield


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