query | The y____ of an animal are its babies .The young of an animal are its babies . The hen may not be able to feed its young. |
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word | young |
full-definition | adjective A young person, animal, or plant has not lived or existed for very long and is not yet mature . In Scotland, young people can marry at 16. You weren't so very young when she died; you were old enough to remember. ...a field of young barley. He played with his younger brother. The association is advising pregnant women, the very young and the elderly to avoid such foods. You use young to describe a time when a person or thing was young. In her younger days my mother had been a successful fashionwear saleswoman. Someone who is young in appearance or behaviour looks or behaves as if they are young. I was twenty-three, I suppose, and young for my age. He seemed to me very young and very lonely. noun The young of an animal are its babies . The hen may not be able to feed its young. |
inflections | youngeryoungest |
cefr-level | B1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b1
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