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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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