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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. 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

... now, and perhaps only a few marks in the great field still remain to show where the sports were held. But there were gathered there that day the vast host of noble gentlemen who saved the honour and freedom of our young country. ...

— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott

... still to be recognized through the veil which years must have woven across the features. When I had finished my breakfast, I went down and wandered about among the people. Groups of elderly men were talking earnestly; and young men and maidens who had come to be fee'd, were joking and laughing. They stared at the Sassenach gentleman, and, little thinking that he understood every word they uttered, made their remarks upon him in no very ...

— The Portent & Other Stories • George MacDonald

... ended, I shall try My gain or loss thereby; Be the fire ashes, what survives is gold: And I shall weigh the same. Give life its praise or blame: Young, all lay in dispute; I shall know, ...

— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman

... and with their aid he walked a few steps through the trees. But hardly had they gained the road when the Federal batteries, along their whole front, opened a terrible fire of grape and canister. The storm of bullets, tearing through the foliage, was fortunately directed too high, and the three young officers, laying the general down by the roadside, endeavoured to shield him by lying between him and the deadly hail. The earth round them was torn up by the shot, covering them with dust; boughs fell from the trees, and fire flashed from the flints and ...

— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson

... with Young yesterday," said Mr. Vane, his eyes on the stretch of lawn and forest framed by the window. For the sake of the ignorant, it may be well to add that the Honourable Orrin Young was the chairman of ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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