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Adjective: young (younger,youngest)  yúng
    "young people";
    - immature
    "young corn";
    - new
  3. Suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
    "he is young for his age";
    - youthful, vernal
  4. Being in its early stage
  5. Not tried or tested by experience
    "a young hand at ploughing";
    - unseasoned, untested, untried
Noun: young  yúng
  1. Any immature animal
    - offspring
  2. Young people collectively
    "rock music appeals to the young";
    - youth
Noun: Young  yúng
  1. United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
    - Pres Young, Lester Willis Young
  2. English poet (1683-1765)
    - Edward Young
  3. United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
    - Cy Young, Danton True Young
    - Brigham Young
  5. United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
    - Loretta Young
  6. United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
    - Whitney Young, Whitney Moore Young Jr.
  7. British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of colour vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
    - Thomas Young

Derived forms: youngest, youngs, younger


Type of: actress, age bracket, age group, animal, animate being, ballplayer, baseball player, beast, brute, civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker, cohort, creature, Egyptologist, fauna, physicist, poet, religious leader, saxist, saxophonist

Antonym: aged, old

Encyclopedia: Young, New South Wales