1. (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life, development or growth
   "young people";
   - immature
    
2. (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
   "young corn";
   - new
    
3. Suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
   "he is young for his age";
   - youthful, vernal
    
4. Being in its early stage
   "a young industry"; "the day is still young"
    
5. Not tried or tested by experience
   "a young hand at ploughing";
   - unseasoned, untested, untried

1. Any immature animal
   "The mother bird carefully fed her young";
   - offspring
    
2. Young people collectively
   "rock music appeals to the young";
   - youth

1. British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of colour vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
   - Thomas Young
    
2. United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
   - Cy Young, Danton True Young
    
3. 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)
   - Brigham Young
    
4. United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
   - Lester Young, Pres Young, Lester Willis Young
    
5. United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
   - Loretta Young
    
6. United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
   - Whitney Young, Whitney Moore Young Jr.
    
7. English poet (1683-1765)
   - Edward Young

Derived forms: youngest, younger, youngs

See also: adolescent, age, boyish, boylike, childlike, childly, early, five-year-old, four-year-old, girlish, green [informal], immature, inexperienced, inexperient [non-standard], infantile, junior, little, new, newborn, one-year-old, preadolescent, preteen, puppyish, puppylike, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, small, teen, teenage, teenaged, tender, three-year-old, two-year-old, youngish

Type of: actress, age bracket, age group, animal, animate being, ballplayer, baseball player, civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker, cohort, Egyptologist, physicist, poet, religious leader, saxist [informal], saxophonist

Antonym: aged[2]

Encyclopedia: Young, Mary Sophie