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Young   /jəŋ/   Listen
adjective
Young  adj.  (compar. younger; superl. youngest)  
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." ""Whom the gods love, die young," has been too long carelessly said;... whom the gods love, live young forever."
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."
3.
Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak. "Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this."



noun
Young  n.  The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively. "(The egg) bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young."
With young, with child; pregnant.






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"Young" Quotes from Famous Books



... to you, young sir, for bringing me this letter. Will you thank your father from me, and say that I feel deeply indebted to him, and will think over how I can best escape from this strait. Give him the message from me before others, that I ...
— By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic • G.A. Henty

... the people on the plains of Kalevala, and spoke to the young men and maidens, saying: 'Listen, all ye young people. Never disobey your parents; never harm the innocent, nor wrong the weak, nor utter falsehood, else ye will pay the penance for it in the gloomy prison of Manala; for there is the ...
— Finnish Legends for English Children • R. Eivind

... complimented her cheerfully, while he stamped his feet on the floor, and put forward Emilia as one of his girls; but immediately took the landlady aside, to tell her that she was "merely a charge—a ward—something of that sort;" admitting, gladly enough, that she was a very nice young lady. "She's a genius, ma'am, in music:—going to do wonders. She's not one of them." And Mr. Pole informed Mrs. Chickley that when they came to town, they usually slept in one or other of the great squares. He, for his part, preferred old quarters: ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... the childhood which was to develop into such rich maturity. The boy was rather delicate in organization, and not much given to outdoor amusements, except skating and swimming, of which last exercise he was very fond in his young days, and in which he excelled. He was a great reader, never idle, but always had a book in his hand,—a volume of poetry or one of the novels of Scott or Cooper. His fondness for plays and declamation is illustrated by the story ...
— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... doom? Knowest thou not that sorrow cometh with years, and that to live is to mourn? Blessed is the flower that, nipped in its early spring, feels not the blast that one by one scatters its blossoms around it, and leaves but the barren stem. Blessed are the young whom I clasp to my breast, and lull into the sleep which the storm cannot break, nor the morrow arouse to sorrow or to toil. The heart that is stilled in the bloom of its first emotions, that turns with its last ...
— The Pilgrims Of The Rhine • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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