young
adjective
[ jʌŋ ]
• having lived or existed for only a short time.
• "a young girl"
Similar:
youthful,
juvenile,
junior,
adolescent,
teenage,
teenaged,
immature,
childlike,
babyish,
boyish,
girlish,
in the springtime of life,
in one's salad days,
teen,
young people,
youths,
children,
boys and girls,
youngsters,
young ones,
the younger generation,
the next generation,
juveniles,
minors,
schoolboys,
schoolgirls,
whippersnappers,
striplings,
kids,
kiddies,
young 'uns,
lads,
lasses,
• used to denote the younger of two people of the same name.
• "Pitt the Younger"
young
noun
• offspring, especially of an animal before or soon after birth.
• "many grebes carry their young on their backs"
Similar:
offspring,
progeny,
family,
children,
issue,
little ones,
youngsters,
babies,
sons,
daughters,
heirs,
descendants,
successors,
scions,
kids,
kiddies,
nippers,
tots,
tinies,
sprogs,
rug rats,
ankle-biters,
babes,
the fruit of one's loins,
progeniture,
Origin:
Old English g(e)ong, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch jong and German jung, also to youth; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin juvenis .
