young
What is the Definition of young?
Noun:
- any immature animal
- United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
- United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
- 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)
- United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
- English poet (1683-1765)
- United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
- 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)
- young people collectively
Adjective:
- (used of living things especially persons)
- (of crops)
- suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
- being in its early stage
- not tried or tested by experience
How can I use young in a sentence?
And the school bellowed: Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they are bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, So teach us things worth knowing, Bring back what we have forgot, just do your best, we will do the rest, And learn until our brains all rot.
Mr. Dursley was enraged to see that a couple of them were not young at all; why, that man had to be older than he was, and wearing an emerald-green cloak!
To one as young as you, I am sure it seems incredible, but to Nicolas and Perenelle, it really is like going to bed after a very, very long day.
This morning, it was motorcycles. roaring along like maniacs, the young hoodlums, he said, as a motorcycle overtook them.
Mr. Dursley could not bear people who dressed in funny clothes — the getups you saw on young people!
Other meanings of young (synonyms, cognates).
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