adjective
- Used of living things especially persons. ( in an early period of life or development or growth)
- usage: "young people"
- Of crops. ( harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity)
- usage: "new potatoes"; "young corn"
- Suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh.
- usage: "he is young for his age"
- Being in its early stage.
- usage: "a young industry"; "the day is still young"
- synonyms: young
- Not tried or tested by experience.
- usage: "unseasoned artillery volunteers"; "still untested in battle"; "an illustrator untried in mural painting"; "a young hand at plowing"
- synonyms: unseasoned, untested, untried, young
- Used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father.
- usage: "John Junior"; "John Smith, Jr."
- synonyms: jr.
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