THREE-YEAR-OLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does three-year-old mean? 

• THREE-YEAR-OLD (adjective)
  The adjective THREE-YEAR-OLD has 1 sense:

1. three years of age

  Familiarity information: THREE-YEAR-OLD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THREE-YEAR-OLD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Three years of age

Similar:

immature; young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)

 Context examples 

And in the business of love the three-year-old, who had made this his first adventure upon it, yielded up his life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But the thought had hardly formed itself in my mind before he had dropped his serious vein, and was chatting away about some new silver-mounted harness which he intended to spring upon the Mall, and about the match for a thousand guineas which he meant to make between his filly Ethelberta and Lord Doncaster’s famous three-year-old Aurelius.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When she snarled her displeasure, the old leader would whirl on the three-year-old.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The three-year-old grew too ambitious in his fierceness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There was no telling what the outcome would have been, for the third wolf joined the elder, and together, old leader and young leader, they attacked the ambitious three-year-old and proceeded to destroy him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)