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Youth vs. Young

Youth and Young Definitions

Youth

The condition or quality of being young
Travel while you still have your youth.

Young

Being in an early period of life, development, or growth.

Youth

The time of life between childhood and maturity
He was rebellious in his youth.

Young

Newly begun or formed; not advanced
A young biotech company.

Youth

An early period of development or existence
A nation in its youth.

Young

Relating to, typical of, or suggestive of youth or early life
He is young for his age.
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Youth

A young person, especially a young male in late adolescence.

Young

Lacking experience; immature
A young hand at plowing.

Youth

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Young people considered as a group.

Young

Being the junior of two people having the same name.

Youth

(Geology) The first stage in the erosion cycle.

Young

(Geology) Being of an early stage in a geologic cycle. Used of bodies of water and land formations.
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Youth

(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.
Her youth and beauty attracted him to her.

Young

Young persons considered as a group; youth
Entertainment for the young.

Youth

(uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.
Make the most of your youth, it will not last forever.
I made many mistakes in my youth, but learned from them all.

Young

Offspring; brood
A lioness with her young.

Youth

(countable) A young person.
There was a group of youths hanging around the parking lot, reading fashion magazines and listening to music.

Young

In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
A lamb is a young sheep;
These picture books are for young readers
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Youth

(countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.

Young

At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
The age of space travel is still young;
A young business

Youth

Young persons, collectively.

Young

(Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
How young is your dog?
Her grandmother turned 70 years young last month.

Youth

The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.
Such as in his faceYouth smiled celestial.

Young

Junior (of two related people with the same name).

Youth

The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.
He wondered that your lordshipWould suffer him to spend his youth at home.
Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly.

Young

(of a decade of life) Early.

Youth

A young person; especially, a young man.
Seven youths from Athens yearly sent.

Young

Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.

Youth

Young persons, collectively.
It is fit to read the best authors to youth first.

Young

Of or belonging to the early part of life.
The cynical world soon shattered my young dreams.

Youth

A young person (especially a young man or boy)

Young

(obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.

Youth

Young people collectively;
Rock music appeals to the young
Youth everywhere rises in revolt

Young

(often as if a plural noun) Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.
The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.
The lion's young are curious about the world around them.

Youth

The time of life between childhood and maturity

Young

To become or seem to become younger.

Youth

Early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced

Young

To cause to appear younger.

Youth

An early period of development;
During the youth of the project

Young

(geology) To exhibit younging.

Youth

The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

Young

Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; - said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.
For he so young and tender was of age.
"Whom the gods love, die young," has been too long carelessly said; . . . whom the gods love, live young forever.

Young

Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.
While the fears of the people were young.

Young

Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.

Young

The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
[The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosedTheir callow young.

Young

Any immature animal

Young

United States film and television actress (1913-2000)

Young

United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)

Young

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)

Young

United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)

Young

English poet (1683-1765)

Young

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

Young

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)

Young

Young people collectively;
Rock music appeals to the young
Youth everywhere rises in revolt

Young

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

Young

(of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity;
New potatoes
Young corn

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