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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Young \Young\, noun The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.

[The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. --Milton.

{With young}, with child; pregnant.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Young \Young\ (y[u^]ng), adjective [Compar. {Younger} (y[u^][ng]"g[~e]r); superl. {Youngest} (-g[e^]st).] [OE. yung, yong, [yogh]ong, [yogh]ung, AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva[,c]a, juvan. [root]281. Cf. {Junior}, {Juniper}, {Juvenile}, {Younker}, {Youth}.]

1. Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.

For he so young and tender was of age. --Chaucer.

''Whom the gods love, die young,'' has been too long carelessly said; . . . whom the gods love, live young forever. --Mrs. H. H. Jackson.

2. Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.

While the fears of the people were young. --De Foe.

3. Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.

Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this. --Shak.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

young

adjective

1: (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people" [syn: {immature}] [ant: {old}]

2: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn" [syn: {new}]

noun

1: any immature animal [syn: {offspring}]

2: United States film and television actress (1913-2000) [syn: {Loretta Young}]

3: United States civil rights leader (1921-1971) [syn: {Whitney Young}, {Whitney Moore Young Jr.}]

4: 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) [syn: {Thomas Young}]

5: United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959) [syn: {Pres Young}, {Lester Willis Young}]

6: English poet (1683-1765) [syn: {Edward Young}]

7: United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955) [syn: {Cy Young}, {Danton True Young}]

8: 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) [syn: {Brigham Young}]

9: young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt" [syn: {youth}] [ant: {aged}] [also: {youngest}, {younger}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

95 Moby Thesaurus words for "young": adolescent, babies, babyhood, babyish, boyhood, boyish, brood, callow, childish, childkind, childlike, children, clutch, crude, dewy, ever-new, evergreen, farrow, firsthand, fledgling, florescent, flowering, fresh, fry, get, girlhood, girlish, green, hatch, immature, inexperienced, infant, infantile, innocent, intact, issue, junior, juvenal, juvenescent, juvenile, kids, litter, little kids, little ones, maiden, maidenly, minor, naive, neoteric, nest, nestling, new, new generation, offspring, original, pristine, progeny, pubescent, puerile, raw, rising generation, sempervirent, small fry, sophomoric, spat, spawn, teenaged, tots, unbeaten, undeveloped, unfinished, unfledged, unformed, unhandled, uninitiated, unpracticed, unripe, unseasoned, unsophisticated, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unversed, vernal, virgin, virginal, young blood, young fry, young people, youngling, youth, youthful, youthlike, youthy

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

Young, AZ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Arizona Population (2000): 561 Housing Units (2000): 446 Land area (2000): 42.012466 sq. miles (108.811784 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 42.012466 sq. miles (108.811784 sq. km) FIPS code: 85330 Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04 Location: 34.111688 N, 110.929208 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Young, AZ Young

From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:

Young -- U.S. County in Texas Population (2000): 17943 Housing Units (2000): 8504 Land area (2000): 922.332083 sq. miles (2388.829028 sq. km) Water area (2000): 8.512770 sq. miles (22.047971 sq. km) Total area (2000): 930.844853 sq. miles (2410.876999 sq. km) Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48 Location: 33.210656 N, 98.658910 W Headwords: Young Young, TX Young County Young County, TX

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