YOUNG PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does young person mean? 

• YOUNG PERSON (noun)
  The noun YOUNG PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a young person (especially a young man or boy)

  Familiarity information: YOUNG PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YOUNG PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young person (especially a young man or boy)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

spring chicken; young person; younker; youth

Hypernyms ("young person" is a kind of...):

juvenile; juvenile person (a young person, not fully developed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "young person"):

blade (a dashing young man)

hobbledehoy (an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy)

pup; puppy (an inexperienced young person)

pupil; school-age child; schoolchild (a young person attending school (up through senior high school))

slip (a young and slender person)

 Context examples 

Even you, used as you are to great sums, would hardly believe that so much could be given to a young person like Jane.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I am always glad to get a young person well placed out.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Oh, you are the young person who cannot understand plain English, are you?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Being the only young person at home, I consider you as the greatest sufferer.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You know Mrs. Kirke wrote to you for some respectable young person to teach her children and sew.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If this young person should produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is she to prove their authenticity?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She did not blame Lady Russell, she did not blame herself for having been guided by her; but she felt that were any young person, in similar circumstances, to apply to her for counsel, they would never receive any of such certain immediate wretchedness, such uncertain future good.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead of such a work, how proudly would she have produced the book, and told its name; though the chances must be against her being occupied by any part of that voluminous publication, of which either the matter or manner would not disgust a young person of taste: the substance of its papers so often consisting in the statement of improbable circumstances, unnatural characters, and topics of conversation which no longer concern anyone living; and their language, too, frequently so coarse as to give no very favourable idea of the age that could endure it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The ravages committed by this unfortunate, rendering her dismissal necessary, she was succeeded (with intervals of Mrs. Kidgerbury) by a long line of Incapables; terminating in a young person of genteel appearance, who went to Greenwich Fair in Dora's bonnet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Woodhouse agreed to it all, but added, Our little friend Harriet Smith, however, is just such another pretty kind of young person.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)