young person

Questions about young person

What does young person mean?

young person means "a young person (especially a young man or boy)".

What is another word for young person?

Close synonyms include youth, younker, spring chicken. 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 person a common word?

young person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.