young
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English yong, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁en-. Compare West Frisian and Dutch jong, German jung, Danish ung.
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Adjective [edit]
young (comparative younger, superlative youngest)
- In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
- A lamb is a young sheep.
- These picture books are for young readers.
- The age of space travel is still young.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- "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."
- As if young; having the look or qualities of a young person.
- My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.
- Of or belonging to the early part of life.
- Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
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Terms derived from young (adjective)
Translations [edit]
in the early part of life or growth
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as if young
belonging in the early part of life
having little experience
Noun [edit]
young (uncountable)
- People who are young; young beings.
- The younger generation.
- Offspring.
- The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.
Translations [edit]
people who are young
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the younger generation
offspring
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Verb [edit]
young (third-person singular simple present youngs, present participle younging, simple past and past participle younged)
- (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger
- 1993, Jacob S. Siegel, A Generation of Change, page 5:
- The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).
- 1993, Jacob S. Siegel, A Generation of Change, page 5:
- (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger
- 1984, US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports[1], page 74:
- Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.
- 1984, US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports[1], page 74:
- (geology) To exhibit younging
- 1994, R. Kerrich & D.A. Wyman, “The mesothermal gold-lamprophyre association”, Mineralogy and Petrology, DOI:10.1007/BF01159725:
- Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.
- 2001 November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”[2], Science, volume 294, number 5547, DOI:10.1126/science.105978, pages 1671-1677:
- The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas.
- 1994, R. Kerrich & D.A. Wyman, “The mesothermal gold-lamprophyre association”, Mineralogy and Petrology, DOI:10.1007/BF01159725:
