{
    "term": "young",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "having lived or existed for only a short time; not fully developed",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Young babies need to be wrapped up warmly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a young country"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Caterpillars eat the young leaves of this plant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a young wine, not really up to drinking yet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The night is **still young** *(= it has only just started)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Small businesses, especially young ones, tend to operate on a tight budget."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fruit Fresh is a young company that is growing fast."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's quite a young orchestra."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "not yet old; not as old as others",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**young people**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They sent many **young men** and **women** off to war."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My son's thirteen but he's **young for his age** *(= not as developed as other boys of the same age)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm **too young** to remember much about the 1990s."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They **married young** *(= at an early age)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My mother **died young**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She **looks much younger than** her 39 years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't know how families with **young children** manage to cope."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **young girl/boy/adult/person**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**In his younger days** he played rugby for Wales."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I am the youngest of four sisters."
                },
                {
                    "text": "talented young football players"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I met the young Michelle Obama at Princeton."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her grandchildren keep her young *(= keep her feeling young)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He seemed quite young to have so much responsibility."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He still looks young for his age."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I felt young again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She looked young enough to be his daughter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She still looks very young."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I met the young Bill Clinton at Oxford."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The composer died tragically young, just three days before her thirtieth birthday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The team is full of talented young players."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This story is about a handsome young prince who falls in love with a village girl."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "phrases": ["young at heart", "young for your age"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "consisting of young people or young children; with a low average age",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They have a young family."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a young audience"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This cottage would be perfect for a couple with a young family."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "suitable or appropriate for young people",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "young fashion"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The clothes she wears are much too young for her."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "youthful"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "used to show that you are angry or annoyed with a particular young person",
            "sensetop": "young man/lady/woman",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I think you owe me an apology, young lady!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "used before or after a person’s name to show the difference between them and an older relative",
            "labels": "(British English, formal)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the younger Kennedy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "William Pitt the younger"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that people seem to be doing something at a younger age than they used to, or that they seem younger because you are now older",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The band's fans are getting younger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Why do police officers seem to be getting younger?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used when you are commenting that time is passing and that you are growing older",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We need to start thinking about our retirement. We’re not getting any younger, you know."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to describe a young person who acts in a more sensible way than you would expect for a person of their age",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "thinking and behaving like a young person even when you are old",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "My father is 76 but he’s still young at heart."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's over 70, but he's young at heart."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "young people should enjoy themselves as much as possible, because they will have to work and worry later in their lives",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/jʌŋ/",
                "audio": "yo/young/young_1_gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjʌŋɡə(r)/",
                "audio": "yo/young/younger__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjʌŋɡɪst/",
                "audio": "yo/young/youngest__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/jʌŋ/",
                "audio": "yo/young/young__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjʌŋɡər/",
                "audio": "yo/young/younger__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjʌŋɡɪst/",
                "audio": "yo/young/youngest__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English g(e)ong, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch jong and German jung, also to youth; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin juvenis."
}