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youngs

youngs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of young.

youngs is the plural of young.

Meaning of young

Verb

young (third-person singular simple present youngs, present participle younging, simple past and past participle younged)

  1. (informal) To become or seem to become younger.
    • The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).1993, Jacob S. Siegel, A Generation of Change, page 5
  2. (informal) To cause to appear younger.
    • Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.1984, US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, page 74
  3. To exhibit younging.
    • Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.1994, R. Kerrich, D.A. Wyman, “The mesothermal gold-lamprophyre association”, in Mineralogy and Petrology, →DOI

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Youngs

Youngs (plural Youngses)

  1. A surname.
    • Youngs argues that proactive external projection in the name of certain values is now central to the EU's identity formation.2006, Hanna Ojanen, “The EU's Responsibility for Global Security and Defence”, in Hartmut Mayer, Henri Vogt, editors, A Responsible Europe?: Ethical Foundations of EU External Affairs, Palgrave...

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Youngs

Youngs

  1. (plural) plural of Young

Forms of youngs

pluralYoungses

Questions about youngs

What does youngs mean?
Youngs means a surname.
What is youngs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Youngs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of young.
What part of speech is youngs?
Youngs is a proper noun.

Words near youngs in the dictionary

  1. youngons
  2. Youngquist
  3. Youngquists
  4. Youngren
  5. Youngrens
  6. youngs
  7. Youngses
  8. youngshit
  9. youngshits
  10. youngsome
  11. Youngson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: youngs (page history and authors); Youngs (page history and authors); young (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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