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young
English
Etymology
From Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ?eong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?yuh?n??ós, from *h?yuh?en- (“young”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: y?ng, IPA(key): /j??/
- Rhymes: -??
Adjective
young (comparative younger, superlative youngest)
- In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
- At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 23,[1]
- […] while the Fears of the People were young, they were encreas’d strangely by several odd Accidents […]
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 23,[1]
- (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
- 1906, Robertson Nicoll, Tis Forty Years Since, quoted in T. P.'s Weekly, volume 8, page 462:
- And thou, our Mother, twice two centuries young,
- Bend with bright shafts of truth thy bow fresh-strung.
- 1906, Robertson Nicoll, Tis Forty Years Since, quoted in T. P.'s Weekly, volume 8, page 462:
- Junior (of two related people with the same name).
- 1841, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
- The young Mr. Chester must be in the wrong, and the old Mr. Chester must be in the right.
- 1841, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
- (of a decade of life) Early.
- 1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41,[2]
- […] Miss Hessy is as pretty a girl as eye can see, in her young twenties and a bit of a fortune to boot.
- 1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 1,
- Ephraim would be in his young thirties.
- 2008, Alice Fisher, “Grown-up chic is back as high street goes upmarket,” The Guardian, 20 January, 2008,[3]
- […] while this may appeal to older, better-off shoppers, vast numbers, especially those in their teens and young twenties, still want fast, cheap fashion.
- 1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41,[2]
- Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
- Of or belonging to the early part of life.
- (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, Scene 1,[4]
- Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, Scene 1,[4]
Synonyms
- (born not long ago): youthful, junior; see also Thesaurus:young
- (having qualities of a young person): youthful, juvenile
- (of or belonging to the early part of life): juvenile
- (inexperienced): underdeveloped, undeveloped, immature
Antonyms
- (born not long ago): old, aged, grown up, senior, youthless, elderly
- (having qualities of a young person): aged, old, youthless, mature, elderly
- (of or belonging to the early part of life): senior, mature, elderly
- (inexperienced): mature, experienced, veteran
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
young (usually uncountable, plural young)
- People who are young; young people, collectively; youth.
- The young of today are well-educated.
(Should we delete(+) this sense?)
- Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
- (rare, possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
- 2010, Mammal Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide, page 21:
- 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 […]
- 2010, Mammal Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide, page 21:
Translations
Related terms
- youth
Verb
young (third-person singular simple present youngs, present participle younging, simple past and past participle younged)
- (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
- (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.
- (geology) To exhibit younging.
Middle English
Adjective
young
- Alternative form of yong
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ingenue
English
Alternative forms
- ingénue
Etymology
Borrowed from French ingénue, the feminine form of ingénu (“guileless”), originally from the Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??n??nu/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æn?e??nju?/
Noun
ingenue (plural ingenues)
- An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome girl or young woman.
- (theater, film) A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.
- Hypernym: stock character
- Coordinate terms: girl next door, femme fatale, damsel in distress
- 2012, Thomas Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969, McFarland (?ISBN), page 396:
- The intelligent and talented blonde who was fluent in English, French and Spanish was interested in art and joined a local theater group to work on set designs but wound up on stage playing an ingenue in Liliom and was spotted by director Vincente Minnelli.
- (rare) Misspelling of ingenu.
Usage notes
The corresponding masculine term, ingenu, is poorly known, and so the feminine term is sometimes used in a gender-neutral or masculine way. (See the 2002 citation, where the explicit masculine French is feminized in English.)
Related terms
- ingenu, ingenuous
Translations
Further reading
- ingénue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Guienne, eugenin, genuine, unigene
Italian
Adjective
ingenue f pl
- feminine plural of ingenuo
Noun
ingenue f
- plural of ingenua
Anagrams
- genuine
Latin
Adjective
ingenue
- vocative masculine singular of ingenuus
References
- ingenue in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ingenue in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ingenue in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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