Word Direct Answers

What does "young" mean?

Young: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak. Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this. Shak.
  2. 3.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.

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