young man

1. 1.

   a teenager or a young adult male

   Synonymsyoung buck

   Broaderadolescentman

Questions about young man

What does young man mean?

young man means "a teenager or a young adult male".

What is another word for young man?

Close synonyms include young buck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is young man a common word?

young man is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.