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adjective

Young adj. (compar. younger; superl. youngest)

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. "For he so young and tender was of age." ""Whom the gods love, die young," has been too long carelessly said;... whom the gods love, live young forever."

Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree. "While the fears of the people were young."

Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak. "Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this."

noun

Young n. The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively. "(The egg) bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young."

With young, with child; pregnant.

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Etymology of 'Young'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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