YOUNG (younger, youngest)

Pronunciation (US):

• YOUNG (noun)
  The noun YOUNG has 9 senses:

1. any immature animal
2. United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
3. United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
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)
5. United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
6. English poet (1683-1765)
7. United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
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)
9. young people collectively

  Familiarity information: YOUNG used as a noun is familiar.

• YOUNG (adjective)
  The adjective YOUNG has 5 senses:

1. (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
2. (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
3. suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
4. being in its early stage
5. not tried or tested by experience

  Familiarity information: YOUNG used as an adjective is common.

• YOUNG (noun)

Meaning:

Any immature animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

young; offspring

Hypernyms ("young" is a kind of...):

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "young"):

hatchling (any recently hatched animal (especially birds))

orphan (a young animal without a mother)

young mammal (any immature mammal)

young bird (a bird that is still young)

spat (a young oyster or other bivalve)

young fish (a fish that is young)

Meaning:

United States film and television actress (1913-2000)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Loretta Young; Young

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

Meaning:

United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Whitney Young; Whitney Moore Young Jr.; Young

Instance hypernyms:

civil rights activist; civil rights leader; civil rights worker (a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups)

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Thomas Young; Young

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Egyptologist (an archeologist who specializes in Egyptology)

Meaning:

United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lester Willis Young; Pres Young; Young

Instance hypernyms:

saxist; saxophonist (a musician who plays the saxophone)

Meaning:

English poet (1683-1765)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edward Young; Young

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Meaning:

United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cy Young; Danton True Young; Young

Instance hypernyms:

ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Brigham Young; Young

Instance hypernyms:

religious leader (leader of a religious order)

Meaning:

Young people collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

youth; young

Context examples:

rock music appeals to the young / youth everywhere rises in revolt

Hypernyms ("young" is a kind of...):

age bracket; age group; cohort (a group people having approximately the same age)

Antonym:

aged (people who are old collectively)

• YOUNG (adjective)

Meaning:

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

Synonyms:

young; immature

Context example:

young people

Similar:

vernal; young; youthful (suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh)

early (very young)

formative (susceptible to alteration by development and experience)

girlish; schoolgirlish (befitting or characteristic of a young girl)

junior (including or intended for youthful persons)

little; small ((of children and animals) young, immature)

newborn (recently borne)

preadolescent; preteen (of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12)

puppyish; puppylike (characteristic of a puppy)

tender (young and immature)

youngish (somewhat young)

childlike; childly (befitting a young child)

boyish; boylike; schoolboyish (befitting or characteristic of a young boy)

one-year-old (one year of age)

two-year-old (two years of age)

three-year-old (three years of age)

four-year-old (four years of age)

five-year-old (five years of age)

adolescent; teen; teenage; teenaged (being of the age 13 through 19)

infantile (being or befitting or characteristic of an infant)

Also:

new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)

immature (not yet mature)

junior (younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service)

Attribute:

age (how long something has existed)

Domain category:

animate thing; living thing (a living (or once living) entity)

Antonym:

old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)

Meaning:

(of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity

Synonyms:

young; new

Context examples:

new potatoes / young corn

Similar:

early (being or occurring at an early stage of development)

Meaning:

Suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh

Synonyms:

vernal; youthful; young

Context example:

he is young for his age

Similar:

immature; young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)

Meaning:

Being in its early stage

Context examples:

a young industry / the day is still young

Similar:

new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)

Meaning:

Not tried or tested by experience

Synonyms:

untried; untested; unseasoned; young

Context examples:

unseasoned artillery volunteers / still untested in battle / an illustrator untried in mural painting / a young hand at plowing

Similar:

inexperienced; inexperient (lacking practical experience or training)