young
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: demographics
demography
geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).
Cognates
Cognate with Alemannic German jung, jungu, junhs, jungà, jòng (“young”), Bavarian junk (“young”), Central Franconian, Luxembourgish jonk (“young”), Cimbrian djung, jung, junk (“young”), Dutch jong (“young”), German, German Low German, Mòcheno and Vilamovian jung (“young”), Limburgish jong, jonk (“young”), Yiddish יונג (yung, “young”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish ung (“young”), Faroese, Icelandic ungur (“young”), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍃 (juggs, “young”).
Inflected forms:
form: younger
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: youngest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: young
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: youngs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: youngs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: younging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: younged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: younged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
pos: adj
examples: a lamb is a young sheep
these picture books are for young readers
Come skydiving with us. Come on, you're only young once!
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!
"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."
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.
At Columbia-Greene, staffers go for the most unadoptable animals to save them from euthanasia. The youngest, healthiest, cutest pets are waiting for you.
The factors related to increase in number of abscondings were younger age, psychiatric problems, multi-drug abuse and living alone.
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.
The number of young children in the US who have died from opioid overdoses has increased significantly, according to a new study on accidental poisonings of children 5 and younger.
These concerns were shared by other SNP women who told the Guardian there was a chronic lack of support from the party, including for those with younger families.
gloss: At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
pos: adj
examples: the age of space travel is still young
a young business
[…] while the Fears of the People were young, they were encreas’d strangely by several odd Accidents […]
Look at that sky, life's begun / Nights are warm and the days are young
A team of Irish astronomers have captured an out-of-this-world image of one of the youngest stars known to scientists.
gloss: advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Junior (of two related people with the same name).
pos: adj
examples: The young Mr. Chester must be in the wrong, and the old Mr. Chester must be in the right.
gloss: Early (of a decade of life).
pos: adj
examples: 1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41,
[…] Miss Hessy is as pretty a girl as eye can see, in her young twenties and a bit of a fortune to boot.
Ephraim would be in his young thirties.
[…] while this may appeal to older, better-off shoppers, vast numbers, especially those in their teens and young twenties, still want fast, cheap fashion.
gloss: Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Of or belonging to the early part of life.
pos: adj
examples: The cynical world soon shattered my young dreams.
gloss: Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.
gloss: Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.
pos: noun
tags: often
examples: The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.
The lion's young are curious about the world around them.
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 […]
gloss: To become or seem to become younger.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).
gloss: To cause to appear younger.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.
gloss: To exhibit younging.
pos: verb
examples: Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.
The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas.
Synonyms: junior
baby-faced
hebetic
young
youngling
youngly
youngsome
youngthly
youthly
youthsome
Antonyms: old
aged
grown up
senior
youthless
elderly
mature
experienced
veteran
Related words: young adulthood
youth
callow
childish
immature
puerile
coltish
juvenal
unfledged
active
inexperienced
child
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: jonk
lang: Bashkir
word: йәш
roman: yəş
lang: Breton
word: yaouank
lang: Dutch
word: jong
lang: Dutch
word: jeugdig
lang: German
word: jung
lang: Interlingua
word: juvene
lang: Japanese
word: 若い
roman: wakai
lang: Korean
word: 어리다
roman: eorida
lang: Central Kurdish
word: گەنج
roman: genc
lang: Pashto
word: ځوان
roman: źwân
lang: Persian
word: جوان
roman: javân
lang: Portuguese
word: jovem
lang: Russian
word: моложа́вый
roman: moložávyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мла̑д
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mlȃd
lang: Sundanese
word: anom
lang: Swedish
word: ung
lang: Thai
word: อ่อนวัย
roman: ɔ̀ɔn-wai
lang: Turkish
word: genç
lang: Afrikaans
word: jonk
lang: Bashkir
word: йәш
roman: yəş
lang: Bulgarian
word: младежки
roman: mladežki
lang: Dutch
word: jong
lang: German
word: jung
lang: Interlingua
word: de juventute
lang: Korean
word: 이르다
roman: ireuda
lang: Polish
word: młodzieńczy
lang: Portuguese
word: de juventude
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мла̑д
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mlȃd
lang: Sundanese
word: anom
lang: Turkish
word: gençlik