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adjective

Young adj. (compar. younger; superl. youngest)

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."

Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree. "While the fears of the people were young."

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Young" Quotes from Famous Books

... now, and perhaps only a few marks in the great field still remain to show where the sports were held. But there were gathered there that day the vast host of noble gentlemen who saved the honour and freedom of our young country. ...

— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott

... still to be recognized through the veil which years must have woven across the features. When I had finished my breakfast, I went down and wandered about among the people. Groups of elderly men were talking earnestly; and young men and maidens who had come to be fee'd, were joking and laughing. They stared at the Sassenach gentleman, and, little thinking that he understood every word they uttered, made their remarks upon him in no very ...

— The Portent & Other Stories • George MacDonald

... ended, I shall try My gain or loss thereby; Be the fire ashes, what survives is gold: And I shall weigh the same. Give life its praise or blame: Young, all lay in dispute; I shall know, ...

— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman

... and with their aid he walked a few steps through the trees. But hardly had they gained the road when the Federal batteries, along their whole front, opened a terrible fire of grape and canister. The storm of bullets, tearing through the foliage, was fortunately directed too high, and the three young officers, laying the general down by the roadside, endeavoured to shield him by lying between him and the deadly hail. The earth round them was torn up by the shot, covering them with dust; boughs fell from the trees, and fire flashed from the flints and ...

— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson

... with Young yesterday," said Mr. Vane, his eyes on the stretch of lawn and forest framed by the window. For the sake of the ignorant, it may be well to add that the Honourable Orrin Young was the chairman of ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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