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YOUNG (younger, youngest)
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, youngest Dictionary entry overview: What does Young mean?
• YOUNG (noun)
The noun YOUNG has 9 senses:
1. any immature animal
2. United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
3. United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
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)
5. United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
6. English poet (1683-1765)
7. United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
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)
9. young people collectively
Familiarity information: YOUNG used as a noun is familiar.
• YOUNG (adjective)
The adjective YOUNG has 5 senses:
1. (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
2. (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
3. suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
4. being in its early stage
5. not tried or tested by experience
Familiarity information: YOUNG used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any immature animal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
offspring; young
Hypernyms ("young" is a kind of...):
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "young"):
hatchling (any recently hatched animal (especially birds))
orphan (a young animal without a mother)
young mammal (any immature mammal)
young bird (a bird that is still young)
spat (a young oyster or other bivalve)
young fish (a fish that is young)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Loretta Young; Young
Instance hypernyms:
actress (a female actor)
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Whitney Moore Young Jr.; Whitney Young; Young
Instance hypernyms:
civil rights activist; civil rights leader; civil rights worker (a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups)
Sense 4
Meaning:
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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Thomas Young; Young
Instance hypernyms:
Egyptologist (an archeologist who specializes in Egyptology)
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
Sense 5
Meaning:
United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Lester Willis Young; Pres Young; Young
Instance hypernyms:
saxist; saxophonist (a musician who plays the saxophone)
Sense 6
Meaning:
English poet (1683-1765)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Edward Young; Young
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Sense 7
Meaning:
United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Cy Young; Danton True Young; Young
Instance hypernyms:
ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)
Sense 8
Meaning:
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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Brigham Young; Young
Instance hypernyms:
religious leader (leader of a religious order)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Young people collectively
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
young; youth
Context example:
youth everywhere rises in revolt
Hypernyms ("young" is a kind of...):
age bracket; age group; cohort (a group of people having approximately the same age)
Antonym:
aged (people who are old collectively)
Derivation:
young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: youngest
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
Synonyms:
immature; young
Context example:
young people
Similar:
puppyish; puppylike (characteristic of a puppy)
preadolescent; preteen (of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12)
newborn (recently born)
tender (young and immature)
little; small ((of children and animals) young, immature)
junior (including or intended for youthful persons)
girlish; schoolgirlish (befitting or characteristic of a young girl)
early (very young)
childlike; childly (befitting a young child)
boyish; boylike; schoolboyish (befitting or characteristic of a young boy)
infantile (being or befitting or characteristic of an infant)
adolescent; teen; teenage; teenaged (being of the age 13 through 19)
five-year-old (five years of age)
four-year-old (four years of age)
three-year-old (three years of age)
two-year-old (two years of age)
one-year-old (one year of age)
youngish (somewhat young)
vernal; young; youthful (suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh)
Also:
junior (younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service)
new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
immature (not yet mature)
Attribute:
age (how long something has existed)
Domain category:
animate thing; living thing (a living (or once living) entity)
Antonym:
old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)
Derivation:
young (young people collectively)
youngness (the opposite of oldness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
Synonyms:
new; young
Context example:
young corn
Similar:
early (being or occurring at an early stage of development)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
Synonyms:
Context example:
he is young for his age
Similar:
immature; young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Being in its early stage
Context example:
the day is still young
Similar:
new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
Derivation:
youngness (the opposite of oldness)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Not tried or tested by experience
Synonyms:
unseasoned; untested; untried; young
Context example:
a young hand at plowing
Similar:
inexperienced; inexperient (lacking practical experience or training)
Context examples
A WHO grade I, relatively circumscribed, slowly growing, often cystic astrocytoma occurring in children and young adults.
(Pilocytic Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
A peritoneal mesothelioma affecting mainly young females and producing cysts of variable size and number lined by a single layer of benign mesothelial cells.
(Peritoneal Multicystic Mesothelioma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Few young ladies of eighteen could be less called on to speak their opinion than Fanny.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It occurs predominantly in infants and young children.
(Pilomyxoid Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A WHO grade I slow growing tumor, more frequently affecting young adults.
(Pineocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)
A cystic mesothelioma that arises from the peritoneum and usually affects young to middle aged females.
(Peritoneal Multicystic Mesothelioma, NCI Thesaurus)
A usually aggressive malignant bone-forming mesenchymal tumor, predominantly affecting adolescents and young adults.
(Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It occurs most commonly in young people and affects more males than females.
(Osteogenic sarcoma, NCI Dictionary)
A rare, highly aggressive and lethal carcinoma that affects children and young adults.
(NUT Midline Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
What is the young man’s own account of the matter?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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