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[n] any immature animal
[n] young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt"
[n] 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)
[n] United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
[n] English poet (1683-1765)
[n] United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
[n] 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)
[n] United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
[n] United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
[adj] (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "baby carrots"; "new potatoes"; "young corn"
[adj] (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Young: adolescent | baby | baby(a) | boyish | boylike | Brigham Young | childlike | childly | Cy Young | Danton True Young | early | Edward Young | formative | girlish | immature | infant(a) | infantile | junior | Lester Willis Young | little | Loretta Young | new | newborn | offspring | preadolescent | Pres Young | preteen | puppyish | puppylike | schoolboyish | schoolgirlish | small | teen | teenage | teenaged | tender | Thomas Young | vernal | vulnerable | Whitney Moore Young Jr. | Whitney Young | youngish | youth | youthful

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See Also | actress | age bracket | age group | animal | animate being | ballplayer | baseball player | beast | brute | civil rights leader | civil rights worker | cohort | creature | Egyptologist | fauna | hatchling | physicist | poet | religious leader | saxophonist | spat | young bird | young fish | young mammal

Young In Webster's Dictionary

\Young\ (y[u^]ng), a. [Compar. {Younger} (y[u^][ng]"g[~e]r); superl. {Youngest} (-g[e^]st).] [OE. yung, yong, [yogh]ong, [yogh]ung, AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva[,c]a, juvan. [root]281. Cf. {Junior}, {Juniper}, {Juvenile}, {Younker}, {Youth}.] 1. 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. --Chaucer. ``Whom the gods love, die young,'' has been too long carelessly said; . . . whom the gods love, live young forever. --Mrs. H. H. Jackson. 2. Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree. While the fears of the people were young. --De Foe. 3. Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak. Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this. --Shak.
\Young\, n. The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively. [The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. --Milton. {With young}, with child; pregnant.

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