Young,

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Young \Young\ (y[u^]ng), a. [Compar. {Younger}
     (y[u^][ng]"g[~e]r); superl. {Youngest} (-g[e^]st).] [OE.
     yung, yong, [yogh]ong, [yogh]ung, AS. geong; akin to OFries.
     iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. &
     Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L.
     juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva[,c]a, juvan. [root]281. Cf.


     {Junior}, {Juniper}, {Juvenile}, {Younker}, {Youth}.]
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     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.
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              For he so young and tender was of age. --Chaucer.
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              "Whom the gods love, die young," has been too long
              carelessly said; . . . whom the gods love, live
              young forever.                        --Mrs. H. H.
                                                    Jackson.
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     2. Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young
        plant; a young tree.
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              While the fears of the people were young. --De Foe.
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     3. Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed;
        ignorant; weak.
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              Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in
              this.                                 --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Young \Young\, n.
     The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring
     collectively.
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           [The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed
           Their callow young.                      --Milton.
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     {With young}, with child; pregnant.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  young
       adj 1: (used of living things especially persons) in an early
              period of life or development or growth; "young
              people" [syn: {immature}] [ant: {old}]
       2: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development;
          before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn"
          [syn: {new}]
       n 1: any immature animal [syn: {offspring}]
       2: United States film and television actress (1913-2000) [syn:
          {Loretta Young}]
       3: United States civil rights leader (1921-1971) [syn: {Whitney
          Young}, {Whitney Moore Young Jr.}]
       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) [syn: {Thomas Young}]
       5: United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959) [syn: {Pres
          Young}, {Lester Willis Young}]
       6: English poet (1683-1765) [syn: {Edward Young}]
       7: United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
          [syn: {Cy Young}, {Danton True Young}]
       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)
          [syn: {Brigham Young}]
       9: young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the
          young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt" [syn: {youth}]
          [ant: {aged}]
       [also: {youngest}, {younger}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "young":
     adolescent, babies, babyhood, babyish, boyhood, boyish, brood,
     callow, childish, childkind, childlike, children, clutch, crude,
     dewy, ever-new, evergreen, farrow, firsthand, fledgling,
     florescent, flowering, fresh, fry, get, girlhood, girlish, green,
     hatch, immature, inexperienced, infant, infantile, innocent,
     intact, issue, junior, juvenal, juvenescent, juvenile, kids,
     litter, little kids, little ones, maiden, maidenly, minor, naive,
     neoteric, nest, nestling, new, new generation, offspring, original,
     pristine, progeny, pubescent, puerile, raw, rising generation,
     sempervirent, small fry, sophomoric, spat, spawn, teenaged, tots,
     unbeaten, undeveloped, unfinished, unfledged, unformed, unhandled,
     uninitiated, unpracticed, unripe, unseasoned, unsophisticated,
     untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unversed, vernal, virgin,
     virginal, young blood, young fry, young people, youngling, youth,
     youthful, youthlike, youthy
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

  Young -- U.S. County in Texas
     Population (2000):    17943
     Housing Units (2000): 8504
     Land area (2000):     922.332083 sq. miles (2388.829028 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    8.512770 sq. miles (22.047971 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    930.844853 sq. miles (2410.876999 sq. km)
     Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
     Location:             33.210656 N, 98.658910 W
     Headwords:
      Young
      Young, TX
      Young County
      Young County, TX
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Young, AZ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Arizona
     Population (2000):    561
     Housing Units (2000): 446
     Land area (2000):     42.012466 sq. miles (108.811784 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    42.012466 sq. miles (108.811784 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            85330
     Located within:       Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
     Location:             34.111688 N, 110.929208 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Young, AZ
      Young