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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

... is useless. I have already discussed this question at length with reference to the menhaden and mackerel. With the swordfish the conditions are very different. The former are known to spawn in our waters, and the schools of young ones follow the old ones in toward the shores. The latter do not spawn in our waters. We cannot well believe that they hibernate, nor is the hypothesis of a sojourn in the middle strata of mid-ocean exactly tenable. Perhaps they migrate to some distant ...

— Tales of Fishes • Zane Grey

... glance caught the eyes of his young wife fixed upon him. She was half sitting up in bed, supported by pillows, and whiter than the curtains whose shadow enveloped her. She held clasped to her breast her sleeping infant, which was already covered, like its mother, with lace and pink ribbons. From the ...

— Monsieur de Camors, Complete • Octave Feuillet

... from ancient times, maintained the custom of publicly demonstrating their esteem of any young female member of a community, who, in her progress from childhood to adolescence, or rather to womanhood, may have given evidence of the possession of any unusual amount of amiability and cleverness. Young girls who are deemed worthy of public recognition as examples of virtue ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 - Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 • Various

... his old vices a young passion. He adores the little lame girl who skips around him in his room, which is ...

— Ten Tales • Francois Coppee

... how to account for so extraordinary a transition, I took an opportunity to ask her the reason of it. She replied, that as the child was so young when it died, and unable to support itself in the country of spirits, both she and her husband had been apprehensive that its situation would be far from pleasant; but no sooner did she behold its father depart for the same place, and who not only loved the child with the tenderest ...

— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers

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