young

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

younger

Superlative

youngest

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

young

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

young

past (v2)

younged

past participle (v3)

younged

present participle

younging

3rd person singular

youngs

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.

   • Come skydiving with us. Come on, you're only young once!
   • The factors related to increase in number of abscondings were younger age, psychiatric problems, multi-drug abuse and living alone.
   • At Columbia-Greene, staffers go for the most unadoptable animals to save them from euthanasia. The youngest, healthiest, cutest pets are waiting for you.

2. 2.At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.

   • A team of Irish astronomers have captured an out-of-this-world image of one of the youngest stars known to scientists.

3. 3.advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.

   • Her grandmother turned 70 years young last month.
   • How young is your dog?

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

   • The young Mr. Chester must be in the wrong, and the old Mr. Chester must be in the right.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.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.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To become or seem to become younger.(informal)

   • The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).

2. 2.To cause to appear younger.(informal)

   • Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.

3. 3.To exhibit younging.

   • The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas.
   • Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.

Overall

Very common· #288

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Common

General reading & writing

Very common

Academic

Uncommon

Literature

Common

Antonyms

• old

Word family

• you