young
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.Examples: "And thou, our Mother, twice two centuries young, Bend with bright shafts of truth thy bow fresh-strung."; "How young is your dog?"; "Her grandmother turned 70 years young last month."
2. (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.Examples: "Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this."Synonyms: underdeveloped, undeveloped, immatureobsolete
noun (English)
1. (often as if a plural noun) Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.Examples: "The lion caught a gnu to feed its young."; "The lion's young are curious about the world around them."; "There is a logic in this behavior: a mother will not come into breeding condition again unless her young is ready to be weaned or has died, so killing a baby may hasten […]"often
verb (English)
1. (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.Examples: "The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger)."informal
2. (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.Examples: "Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census."informal
3. (geology) To exhibit younging.Examples: "Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces."; "The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas."
Definition source: Wiktionary