Meaning of the word young

God forgives the inattention at Mass of an old man when he sleeps; of a young man when he loves; and the wandering attention of an _old_ man blessed with a _young_ heart the Almighty will surely pardon, for He Himself must admire beauty, since He made it. ‘ ❋ Unknown (1905)

I knew there was no chance for Marian and Anne; they’re old maids, and I’m young — _young_. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)

He could hardly refrain from a smile when he came across the sentence, «He was young enough to know better,» as he substituted in a large illegible hand the word _old_ for _young_. ❋ Mary Cholmondeley (1892)

«She couldn’t hev things a-gwine on so as they had been, and she was gwine to make these yer young ones keep better order;» for Dinah herself, somehow, indulged the illusion that she herself was the soul of order, and it was only the _young uns_, and the everybody else in the house, that were the cause of anything that fell short of perfection in this respect. ❋ Various (1887)

There would not be any thing essentially wrong in an attachment between these young people, if it sprang up naturally; only it would be necessary to impress upon them the fact that they were _young_, and that for years to come their minds should be largely occupied with other matters. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

«She couldn’t hev things a gwine on so as they had been, and she was gwine to make these yer young ones keep better order;» for Dinah herself, somehow, indulged the illusion that she, herself, was the soul of order, and it was only the _young uns_, and the everybody else in the house, that were the cause of anything that fell short of perfection in this respect. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)

Fled from her heart, yet she is young, is _young_; ❋ Fanny Kemble (1851)

WHEN Foote was one day lamenting his growing old, a _pert_ young fellow asked him what he would give to be as _young_ as he. ❋ Mark Lemon (1839)

The very best lesson for a horseman, young or old, is colt-breaking; and if in the attempt the _young_ horseman fails to do the colt justice, he will at least do him less injury than the country colt-breaker, or the generality of grooms. ❋ George Greenwood (1837)

Miss Carnaby heard the conversation of her young companions, and she gradually became conscious that William was not a boy; in fact, she began to wonder how she had ever thought so, for he, as she said unto herself, was «certainly a very interesting _young man_.» ❋ Alexander Leighton (1837)

«What a dreadful operation it must be,» said a young Irish young-gentlemen (all young gentlemen in the navy are not _young_), «but, for the honour of the service, he might take it any how, for the life of him.» ❋ Edward Howard (1820)

I mean, one of those Mugabe-esque banana republics, ok., but if a candidate/party can’t win an election on anything more than the idea that his opponent smoked a joint when he was young — or had a few too many drinks, for that matter, *when he was young* — what does that say about (a) the quality of our political discourse; (b) our worthiness to «lead the world»; and (c) the slavish devotion of so many people to the pronouncements of our government? ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

why did u break young princesa’s heart,never even called or wrote a common note to say you were still alive..young love,well it sounded sweet while it lasted.so cute,all your break time rendezvous,discussing your future together. ❋ Princesa (2008)

«They ain’t ever anythin ‘as hard on the young uns as on the old uns,» asserted Captain Phippeny, «because — well, because they’re _young_, I guess. ❋ Annie Eliot Trumbull (1903)

I. ii.26 (18,4) Such comfort as do lusty young men feel] To say, and to say in pompous words, that a _young man shall feel_ as much in an assembly of beauties, _as young men feel in the month of April_, is surely to waste sound upon a very poor sentiment. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

Yalah, if he’s 16 and u are 17, then I’m 18 lorr: P * young young*; -) ❋ Unknown (2008)

Seeing the phrase «young directors» in the program, I assumed them to be angry, or at least following in the subversive footsteps of Mr. Jia’s student days. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

On retrospect, I should have usen the term young women instead of girls. ❋ Unknown (2005)

If he was referring specifically to young women, he should have used the term young women, as girl refers to a female child. ❋ Unknown (2005)

— Does anyone any longer know what we mean by the term young-adult literature? ❋ Unknown (2008)

1. Yea [d00dz], [lets go to the mall] and get us some young v.
2. Lets go smoke that young [cig]. ❋ Ivelostyourhope (2008)

[I’m going to] the young [party] [though]. ❋ Anon.JC (2010)

[Whattup] young?! Those folks are trippin! Ay young?! Did you see how he [snatched] that [rebound]! ❋ Balls Smartley (2011)

«i’m still young, i’ve got my [whole] life [ahead] of me» said [timmy] ❋ Jewishcracka (2005)

her [last name] is young. ❋ Joe (2005)

WOIIIIIIII [YOUNG] ❋ BANANAMILKKKKKKKKKKKKKK (2019)

Ben — [‘Sup] Young?!
[Jerry] — Its [your world] Ben! How you be bro? ❋ Talk2me-JCH2 (2022)

«[Git] [off me] young before I steal [yo ass].» ❋ Juan (2005)

I tried to hit a drive over the [fairway] [bunker], but proper [Younged It] into the thick rough. ❋ Edward Young (Younged It) (2019)

[Whats up] young?
[Not much] [homie] ❋ Ninja 1106 (2020)

молодой, юный, младший, молодо, молодежь, детеныш

прилагательное ↓

существительное ↓

Словосочетания

a robin feeding her young — малиновка, которая кормит птенцов  
he is young for his age — он молодо выглядит  
a book for young people — книга для молодёжи  
a very forward young woman — очень нахальная девушка  
a hot young guitar player — страстный молодой гитарист  
young fellow — молодой человек  
young idea — свежая идея  
young lad — молодой парень  
likely young woman — привлекательная молодая женщина  
love’s young dream — пылкая и безрассудная любовь  
robust young man — здоровый крепкий юноша  
young / little shaver — юнец, мальчишка  

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adjective
срав. степ. (comparative): younger
прев. степ. (superlative): youngest

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD YOUNG

Old English geong; related to Old Saxon, Old High German iung, Old Norse ungr, Latin iuvenis, Sanskrit yuvan.

PRONUNCIATION OF YOUNG

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF YOUNG

Young can act as a noun and an adjective.

WHAT DOES YOUNG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of young in the English dictionary

The first definition of young in the dictionary is having lived, existed, or been made or known for a relatively short time. Other definition of young is youthful or having qualities associated with youth; vigorous or lively. Young is also of or relating to youth.

SYNONYMS OF «YOUNG»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «young» and belong to the same grammatical category.

TRANSLATION OF YOUNG

Find out the translation of young to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «YOUNG»

The term «young» is very widely used and occupies the 967 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.

Principal search tendencies and common uses of young

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «YOUNG»

Discover the use of young in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to young and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

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• Defenition of the word young

  • Living being as genetically proceeding from an other one.
  • The offspring or descendants of an animal (in some languages, it is used to refer to humans).
  • In the early part of growth or life.
  • (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; «baby carrots»; «new potatoes»; «young corn»
  • (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; «young people»
  • any immature animal
  • young people collectively; «rock music appeals to the young»; «youth everywhere rises in revolt»
  • 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)
  • United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
  • English poet (1683-1765)
  • United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
  • 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)
  • United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
  • United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
  • (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; «new potatoes»; «young corn»
  • young people collectively
  • (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
  • not tried or tested by experience
  • being in its early stage
  • (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
  • suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh

Synonyms for the word young

• • adolescent
  • babies
  • baby
  • babyish
  • brood
  • childish
  • children
  • early
  • fresh
  • immature
  • infantile
  • juvenile
  • litter
  • little
  • new
  • offspring
  • undeveloped
  • youth
  • youthful

Similar words in the young

• • adolescent
  • baby
  • boyish
  • boylike
  • childlike
  • childly
  • early
  • formative
  • girlish
  • immature
  • infant
  • infantile
  • junior
  • little
  • new
  • newborn
  • preadolescent
  • preteen
  • puppyish
  • puppylike
  • schoolboyish
  • schoolgirlish
  • small
  • teen
  • teenage
  • teenaged
  • tender
  • vernal
  • vulnerable
  • young
  • young’s
  • youngish
  • youngster
  • youngster’s
  • youngsters
  • youngstown
  • youngstown’s
  • youthful

Hyponyms for the word young

• • hatchling
  • orphan
  • spat
  • young bird
  • young fish
  • young mammal

Hypernyms for the word young

• • actress
  • age bracket
  • age group
  • animal
  • animate being
  • ballplayer
  • baseball player
  • beast
  • brute
  • civil rights activist
  • civil rights leader
  • civil rights worker
  • cohort
  • creature
  • Egyptologist
  • fauna
  • physicist
  • poet
  • religious leader
  • saxist
  • saxophonist

Antonyms for the word young

• • aged
  • old

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Recent Examples on the Web

Instead, the new lineup brought onto the stage included executive Keith Cox, a president at the Paramount Network, actors Mo Brings Plenty (Mo), Dawn Olivieri (Sarah Atwood), Josh Lucas (who plays younger John Dutton.


—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2023




Jazzmine had two older half-sisters who already were making their way into young adulthood.


—Mike Perrin | , al, 2 Apr. 2023




After McGovern’s health issues pushed him into a role as director of football administration, Kelly finally looked outside his usual Rolodex of options for a young up-and-comer.


—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023




Jameson’s presence, long with other young arms like Brandon Pfaadt and Tommy Henry in Triple-A Reno, would seemingly increase pressure on Bumgarner to pitch well early in the year, especially considering the Diamondbacks are hoping to field a contending team this year.


—Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2023




In addition, talented young designers are making their mark on the industry including David Lopez Quincoces, who designs for Living Divani, Francesco Meda and Lukas Scherrer of Shibuleru.


—Damon Johnstun, oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2023




The crowd was young, well dressed, and mostly ignoring the basketball game on the bar’s televisions.


—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2023




At a rally at the Capitol where hundreds of people showed up demanding stricter gun laws, a young man stood out: the son of Matthew Sullivan, the chaplain at Covenant School, whose family was enmeshed in Nashville’s Presbyterian community.


—Silvia Foster-frau, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023




Mukesh’s younger brother, Anil, runs the Reliance Group; the two wings of the Ambani family, perennial fodder for India’s tabloids, are known for not getting on terribly well.


—Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023

In the months leading up to Zoe giving birth, she was also shown videos of orangutan mothers caring for their young to help the primate understand what to do with a new baby.


—Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2023




The bees are named after cuckoo birds, which lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, who then feed and protect the intruder to the detriment of their own young.


—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2018




Neighboring wasp queens like to visit an unguarded nest, snatch a baby from its cell, and bring it home to carve up and feed to their own young.


—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2015




Back in 2004, while promoting Man on Fire, Washington praised Fanning and her acting skills, even at that young of an age.


—Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2022




Janet Leigh plays a Phoenix secretary who embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client and goes on the run before checking into a remote motel run by a mysterious young.


—Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 26 Sep. 2022




Way back in 2004, while promoting Man on Fire, Washington praised Fanning and her acting skills, even at that young of an age.


—Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2022




In the late 1970s, Jane Goodall’s research on chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, showed that infanticide wasn’t only a male prerogative: The mother-daughter pair Pom and Passion also attacked the young of others, and ate them.


—Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 6 May 2022




Except that the young of any dairy cow is taken from the mother almost immediately.


—Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 11 May 2022


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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: yŭng, IPA^(key): /jʌŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

Adjective[edit]

young (comparative younger, superlative youngest)

1. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
   • 1809 October 26, William Wordsworth, «The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement», Friend, No. 11, ll. 4–5:

     Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
     But to be young was very heaven!

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

     «What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.»

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients:

     I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal’lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

   • 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children’s brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:

     Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

   a lamb is a young sheep;  these picture books are for young readers

2. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.

   the age of space travel is still young;   a young business

   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 23,^[1]

     […] while the Fears of the People were young, they were encreas’d strangely by several odd Accidents […]

3. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
   • 1906, Robertson Nicoll, Tis Forty Years Since, quoted in T. P.’s Weekly, volume 8, page 462:

     And thou, our Mother, twice two centuries young,

     Bend with bright shafts of truth thy bow fresh-strung.

   How young is your dog?   Her grandmother turned 70 years young last month.

4. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
   • 1841, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:

     The young Mr. Chester must be in the wrong, and the old Mr. Chester must be in the right.

5. (of a decade of life) Early.
   • 1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41,^[2]

     […] Miss Hessy is as pretty a girl as eye can see, in her young twenties and a bit of a fortune to boot.

   • 1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 1,

     Ephraim would be in his young thirties.

   • 2008, Alice Fisher, “Grown-up chic is back as high street goes upmarket,” The Guardian, 20 January, 2008,^[3]

     […] while this may appeal to older, better-off shoppers, vast numbers, especially those in their teens and young twenties, still want fast, cheap fashion.

6. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.

   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

   My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.

7. Of or belonging to the early part of life.

   The cynical world soon shattered my young dreams.

8. (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.

   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.

Synonyms[edit]

• (born not long ago): youthful, junior; see also Thesaurus:young
• (having qualities of a young person): youthful, juvenile
• (of or belonging to the early part of life): juvenile
• (inexperienced): underdeveloped, undeveloped, immature

Antonyms[edit]

• (born not long ago): old, aged, grown up, senior, youthless, elderly
• (having qualities of a young person): aged, old, youthless, mature, elderly
• (of or belonging to the early part of life): senior, mature, elderly
• (inexperienced): mature, experienced, veteran

Derived terms[edit]

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• youth

Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

young (plural young)

1. (often as if a plural noun) Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.
   • 2010, Mammal Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide, page 21:

     There is a logic in this behavior: a mother will not come into breeding condition again unless her young is ready to be weaned or has died, so killing a baby may hasten […]

   The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.

   The lion’s young are curious about the world around them.

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

young (third-person singular simple present youngs, present participle younging, simple past and past participle younged)

1. (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.

   • 1993, Jacob S. Siegel, A Generation of Change, page 5:

     The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).

2. (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.

   • 1984, US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports‎^[4], page 74:

     Medicare data was «younged» by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.

3. (geology) To exhibit younging.

   • 1994, R. Kerrich & D.A. Wyman, “The mesothermal gold-lamprophyre association”, in Mineralogy and Petrology, →DOI:

     Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.

   • 2001 November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”, in Science‎^[5], volume 294, number 5547, →DOI, pages 1671-1677:

     The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas.

Anagrams[edit]

• Guyon

Middle English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

young

1. Alternative form of yong

См. также в других словарях:

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• young — [yuŋ] adj. younger [yuŋ′gər] youngest [yuŋ′gəst] [ME yonge < OE geong, akin to Ger & Du jung < IE * yuwen > L juvenis, Sans yuvan , young] 1. being in an early period of life or growth; not old 2. characteristic of youth in quality,… …   English World dictionary

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• Young —   [jʌȖ],    1) Andrew, amerikanischer Politiker, * New Orleans (La.) 12. 3. 1932; kongregationistischer Geistlicher, engagierte sich als Afroamerikaner in der Bürgerrechtsbewegung, in der er den gemäßigten Flügel repräsentierte, besonders für die …   Universal-Lexikon

• YOUNG (T.) — YOUNG THOMAS (1773 1829) Médecin et physicien anglais. Il apprend le grec, le latin, l’hébreu, le français, l’italien, le persan et l’arabe. Il rédige une analyse des systèmes philosophiques connus en Grèce et se passionne pour la botanique et… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• YOUNG (E.) — YOUNG EDWARD (1683 1765) Fils d’un ecclésiastique du Hampshire, Edward Young fait d’abord ses études à Oxford, puis il suit le duc de Wharton; il écrit alors des tragédies assez verbeuses et déclamatoires, qui manquent totalement d’intensité… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• YOUNG (L.) — YOUNG WILLIS LESTER dit LESTER (1909 1959) Ayant débuté comme batteur et saxophoniste alto, Lester Young choisit ensuite le ténor et fait partie de nombreux orchestres, en particulier celui de Count Basie auprès duquel il conquiert la notoriété.… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Young — Young, Brig|ham (1801 77) a US leader of the ↑Mormon religion. In ↑Illinois Mormons were being badly treated, and so they decided to move away. In 1847, Young led 5000 Mormons across the US to their new home in what later became the state of… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

young — перевод на русский

/jʌŋ/

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