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Definitions of young
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United States jazz tenor saxophonist ( 1909- 1959)
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Not long born: in early life: in the first part of growth: inexperienced.
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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)
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United States baseball player and famous pitcher ( 1867- 1955)
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Off spring; especially of the lower animals.
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The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
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Youngish.
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Being in the early period of life; youthful; vigorous; immature.
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United States civil rights leader ( 1921- 1971)
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Offspring of animals.
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Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
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The offspring of animals.
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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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Not old; in early life.
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Being in the early part of life or growth; inexperienced; vigorous in body, or mind; fresh; strong; pertaining to youth; of youthful appearance.
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Not having been long born; being in the first part of life; not old, as a young girl; being in the first part of growth, as a young plant; having little experience youthful; ignorant; weak.
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Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.
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( used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; " young people"
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English poet ( 1683- 1765)
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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)
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any immature animal
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( of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; " new potatoes"; " young corn"
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United States film and television actress ( 1913- 2000)
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young people collectively; " rock music appeals to the young"; " youth everywhere rises in revolt"
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Being in the early part of life or of growth; not long born; having little experience; ignorant.
Antonyms for young
doddery, elderly, senile, overage, aging, venerable, grey, antediluvian, mature, grizzly, ripened, hoar, antique, centenarian, aged, of age, older, middle-aged, gray, golden, full-fledged, nonagenarian, later, emeritus, superannuated, late, gray-headed, ripe, unyoung, adult, gray-haired, grey-haired, senescent, full-blown, age-old, tottery, mellow, grown up, old, gaga, matured, sexagenarian, ageing, overaged, grey-headed, senior, hoary, doddering, over-the-hill, darkened, spavined, white-haired, experienced, obsolete, anile, ancient, oldish, Experient, geriatric, decrepit, dateless, long-lived, octogenarian.
Quotes of young
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
– Jane Austen -
I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.
– Mikhail Baryshnikov -
I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.
– Hugh Downs -
I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.
– Brett Favre -
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
– Gustave Flaubert -
There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
– James Herriot -
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
– Washington Irving -
One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
– Melanie Klein -
When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.
– Diane Lane -
We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.
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Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
– John M. McHugh -
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
– Irwin Shaw -
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute- a white skin.
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Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people.
– Dominique Wilkins -
That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program.
– Tobias Wolff
Usage examples for young
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“ The night is yet young ”
– The Emperor, Part 2, Volume 9. by Georg Ebers -
“ You are too young to die, Giacomo. ”
– Phil the Fiddler by Horatio Alger, Jr. -
“ What the young man says is true. ”
– The Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Henney -
“ Young Wentworth is going to stay in Carlingford. ”
– The Perpetual Curate by Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant -
“ What a thing it is to be young ”
– Temporal Power by Marie Corelli -
“ Then he turned to young Pache. ”
– Jane Oglander by Marie Belloc Lowndes -
“ And, young man, if we do this- what then? ”
– Fore! by Charles Emmett Van Loan -
“ And who is this young man? ”
– The Second String by Nat Gould -
“ It is good to be young and think of the life still to come. ”
– The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle -
“ Take care of her- she is so young and I can't stay. ”
– Pixie O'Shaughnessy by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey -
“ She is so young and pretty! ”
– Polly and the Princess by Emma C. Dowd -
“ " I will send this young man," he said. ”
– Andy Grant's Pluck by Horatio Alger -
“ Then, young man, I have nothing to say. ”
– In Luck at Last by Walter Besant -
“ You said she was young did you not?" ”
– Wife in Name Only by Charlotte M. Braeme (Bertha M. Clay) -
“ Think how young he is! ”
– The Pillars of the House, V1 by Charlotte M. Yonge -
“ You know, young man, I must find her. ”
– Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton -
“ What a strange young man you are. ”
– Amabel Channice by Anne Douglas Sedgwick -
“ No. The last time I was very young ”
– Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown -
“ " I am going to try to, sir," replied the young man. ”
– The Story of a New York House by Henry Cuyler Bunner -
“ " But you're quite young she said. ”
– Half-Past Bedtime by H. H. Bashford