young

Examples

• All

• Be respectful to all, young, poor, rich, everyone.

• The young cannot remember it.

  Dragon Seed (1944)

• Years from now, the young will ask with wonder about this day.

  Schindler's List (1993)

• Increased smoking rates, drug use, and drinking among the young certainly indicate a very difficult health care future.

  Academic text (2001)

• Is it any surprise that home buying among the young has fallen dramatically?

  Blog text (4)

• Really, I can't understand what the young see in this.

  Bright Young Things (2003)

• But the young wouldn't let her alone.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Meanwhile, the young were growing explosively quickly, converting half of all the food they ate to body mass.

  Fiction book (2000)

• With leaders unconstrained by older attachments, systems of election, or even ordinary respect and dignity, the young could not thrive.

  Academic text (2005)

• The young often lead movements for social change and equality.

Synonyms

Y

youth

vsyoung

486 1.0

Young people as a group often compared with older people

is the broader demographic category without emphasis on contrast to older adults

Antonyms

A

aged

• Archaic

9 1.8

Old people considered as a group

Idioms

Y

young at heart

• Informal

8 4.2

To feel and act lively and playful even though you are older

E

to eat their young

• Literature

2 9.9

To harm or betray people in your own group to help yourself

Compounds

Y

young man

∞ 1.0

A male who is a teenager or a young adult

Y

young person

651 1.0

A child or teenager who is not yet an adult

Y

young woman

604 1.0

A female person in her teens or twenties

Y

young lady

462 1.0

A girl or young woman in her teens to early twenties

Y

young voter

24 2.8

A person aged about 18 to 29 who can vote in elections

Y

young buck

• Slang

12 7.9

A young man who is full of energy and wants to prove himself

Y

young blood

• Informal

11 4.4

People who bring energy and new ideas to a group

S

sweet young thing

• Offensive

3 8.2

An attractive young woman often talked about in a kind way or as less grown-up

Y

young Turk

• Literature

3 8.1

A young person in a group who wants big change and challenges old rules

Y

young bird

2 1.2

A baby bird that is not yet an adult

Y

young whippersnapper

• Offensive

1 9.9

A young person who is rude and thinks they know more than others

Y

young padawan

• Jargon

1 9.9

A new person learning from an experienced teacher, often used jokingly from Star Wars

Y

Young Turk

1 9.2

A person in a Turkish reform group who wants to make the Ottoman Empire more modern and free

Y

young heifer

• Specialized

1 6.0

A young female cow that has not had a calf

Y

young fogey

• UK

1 9.5

A young person who likes old-fashioned clothes and ways of behaving

Surface Forms

Etymology