youngadjective
uk/jʌŋ/us/jʌŋ/A1 having lived or existed for only a short time and not old:
young adults/children
His girlfriend's very young.
The trees in this part of the forest are still fairly young.
Philippa is the youngest person in the family.
Angela is two years younger than Clare.
suitable for young people:
young fashion/ideas
Be honest now - do you think this dress is a bit/too young for me (= is more suitable for someone younger)?
look young for your age
to look younger than you really are
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- Jan is married with three young children.
- A young girl came up to me and asked for money.
- The team has several talented young players waiting in the wings.
- He's a very versatile young actor who's as happy in horror films as he is in TV comedies.
- The paper is targeted specifically at young people.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Describing people who are young
- adolescent
- at your mother's knee idiom
- be knee-high to a grasshopper idiom
- flower
- fresh-faced
- in the flower of sb's youth idiom
- knee-high
- little
- mother
- prepubescent
- slip
- small
- teen
- tender
- time
- tweenager
- underage
- yoof
- youthful
- yute
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Idiom(s)
young at heart
young lady/man
young love
youngnoun [ plural ]
uk/jʌŋ/us/jʌŋ/the young
B2 young people considered together as a group:
I have nothing against miniskirts, but I think they're strictly for the young.
the babies of an animal:
Meanwhile, the mother flies back to the nest to feed her young.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Young people
- adolescence
- adolescent
- boyhood
- delinquent
- emo
- girlhood
- laddish
- mall rat
- minor
- punk
- skinhead
- Teddy boy
- teens
- tween
- tweenager
- yoof
- young blood
- young lady/man idiom
- youthful
- yute
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