young
Adjective
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also:tells us about: age - how long something has existedreferred to in: animate thing, living thing - a living (or once living) entitysimilar to:
- 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
- boyish, boylike, schoolboyish - befitting or characteristic of a young boy
- childlike, childly - befitting a young child
- early - very young
- 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 born
- 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
- vernal, young, youthful - suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
same as: immature -
similar to: early - being or occurring at an early stage of developmentsame as: new
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similar to: new - not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
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similar to: inexperienced, inexperient - lacking practical experience or training
Noun
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is a type of: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna - a living organism characterized by voluntary movementsubtypes:
- 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
same as: offspring -
is an instance of: actress - a female actorsame as: loretta young
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is an instance of: civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker - a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groupssame as: whitney moore young jr., whitney young
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is an instance of:
- egyptologist - an archeologist who specializes in Egyptology
- physicist - a scientist trained in physics
same as: thomas young -
is an instance of: saxist, saxophonist - a musician who plays the saxophonesame as: lester willis young, pres young
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is an instance of: poet - a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)same as: edward young
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is an instance of: ballplayer, baseball player - an athlete who plays baseballsame as: cy young, danton true young
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is an instance of: religious leader - leader of a religious ordersame as: brigham young
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same as: youth
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