yong

Adjective

young (comparative younger, superlative youngest)

1. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
   • a lamb is a young sheep

   Synonyms:

   youthful

2. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
   • the age of space travel is still young
3. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
   • And thou, our Mother, twice two centuries young,
     Bend with bright shafts of truth thy bow fresh-strung.1906, Robertson Nicoll, Tis Forty Years Since, quoted in T. P.'s Weekly, volume 8, page 462
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.1841, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
5. Early (of a decade of life).
   • […] Miss Hessy is as pretty a girl as eye can see, in her young twenties and a bit of a fortune to boot.1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41
6. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
   • Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching...2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847

   Synonyms:

   youthful, juvenile

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