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nonyoung

nonyoung adjective: not young.

Adjective

nonyoung (not comparable)

  1. Not young.
    • The nonyoung, the nonmale, and the nonwhite have known that their vocational options were restricted[…]1975, The Vocational Guidance Quarterly, volume 24, page 366
    • Thus the so-called youth culture is really a culture of nonyoung people who have decided to dissolve their adulthood and absorb it into patterns once considered appropriate only for children and adolescents.1990, Lawrence Meir Friedman, The Republic of Choice, page 170

Origin of nonyoung

From non- + young.

Questions about nonyoung

What does nonyoung mean?
Nonyoung means not young.
What part of speech is nonyoung?
Nonyoung is an adjective.

Words near nonyoung in the dictionary

  1. nonymous
  2. nonyne
  3. nonynes
  4. nonyoga
  5. nonyogic
  6. nonyoung
  7. nonzealot
  8. nonzealots
  9. nonzealous
  10. nonzeolitic
  11. nonzero

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