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young

adjective

1 I hate to see a young man throwing his life away:

youthful, juvenile;

junior, adolescent, teenage, teenaged;

immature, childlike, babyish, boyish, girlish;

in the springtime of life, in one's salad days;

informal teen.

▷antonyms old, elderly; mature.

2 a very agreeable young wine:

new, recent, fresh, immature, undeveloped, developing, in the making, in its infancy.

▷antonyms mature.

noun

1 female flycatchers usually raise five or six young:

offspring, progeny, family, children, issue, little ones, youngsters, babies;

sons, daughters, heirs, descendants, successors, scions;

informal kids, kiddies, nippers, tots, tinies;

British, informal sprogs;

North American, informal rug rats;

Australian, New Zealand, informal ankle-biters;

literary babes, the fruit of one's loins;

rare progeniture.

2 (the young)

young people, youths, children, boys and girls, youngsters, young ones, the younger generation, the next generation, juveniles, minors, schoolboys, schoolgirls, whippersnappers, striplings;

informal kids, kiddies, young 'uns, lads, lasses.

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