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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.
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"



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"Young" Quotes from Famous Books



... Melancholy, To be young and wise is folly. 'Tis the weak Fear to wreak On this clay of life their fancies, Shaping ...
— Poems of To-Day: an Anthology • Various
... city, at the end of the bridge where Chucuybatzin, placed at the head of the struggle by the Tukuches, had brought the fighting. There were four women who had armed themselves with lances and bows, and taken part in the battle, fully equal to four young men. The arrows launched by these heroines struck the very mat of Chucuybatzin. Truly it was a terrible revolt which the chiefs made of old. The chiefs of the battle afterwards set up the images of these ...
— The Annals of the Cakchiquels • Daniel G. Brinton
... "Young Kinnordy's ettling to come out, and I meet Lord Airlie, when the moon rises, at the Loups o' Kenny, and auld Bradwardine's as spunky as ever, and there's fifty wild Highlandmen lying ready in the muckle ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... see it's so difficult to fit the young lady without any corsets, and she is really so short we have only a few skirts that will do ...
— Five Nights • Victoria Cross
... though she must have been five or six and thirty at least—"Yes, it is true—it shall be true. I will break my bonds and live the life I was made for. I would have done it long ago, but for—no matter. Why, Ursula, he adores me; young and handsome as he is, he adores me. He will give me my youth back again, ay, ...
— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik


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