Analysis Complete

young

/ young /

noun/adjective

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1

any immature animal

Type of:

animal animate being beast

Kinds of:

hatchling orphan young mammal young bird spat

noun Sense 2

United States film and television actress (1913-2000)

Type of:

actress

noun Sense 3

United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)

Type of:

civil rights leader civil rights worker civil rights activist

noun Sense 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)

Type of:

Egyptologist physicist

noun Sense 5

United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)

Type of:

saxophonist saxist

noun Sense 6

English poet (1683-1765)

Type of:

poet

noun Sense 7

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

Type of:

ballplayer baseball player

noun Sense 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)

Type of:

religious leader

noun Sense 9

young people collectively

"rock music appeals to the young"

"youth everywhere rises in revolt"

Opposites:

aged

Type of:

age group age bracket cohort

adjective Sense 10

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

"young people"

Similar:

adolescent teen teenage teenaged boyish boylike schoolboyish childlike

Opposites:

old

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animal animate being beast hatchling orphan young mammal young bird spat actress civil rights leader civil rights worker civil rights activist