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say it: yuhng
young is a noun and adjective meaning "any immature animal". It is pronounced /ˈjʌŋ/ — yuhng. It carries 14 recorded senses.
any immature animal
United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
English poet (1683-1765)
United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
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)
not tried or tested by experience
“unseasoned artillery volunteers”
“still untested in battle”
“an illustrator untried in mural painting”
“a young hand at plowing”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for young come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.