Young vs Family - What's the difference?
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In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
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, title= As if young; having the look or qualities of a young person.
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, title= Of or belonging to the early part of life.
(obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
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People who are young; young beings.
The younger generation.
Offspring.
To become or seem to become
* {{quote-book, 1993, Jacob S. Siegel, A Generation of Change, page=5, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=i41qoTaUwegC&pg=PA5
, passage=The aging (or younging ) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).}}
To cause to appear younger
* {{quote-book, 1984, US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports
, passage=Medicare data was "younged " by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.}}
(geology) To exhibit younging
* {{quote-journal, 1994, R. Kerrich & D.A. Wyman, The mesothermal gold-lamprophyre association, Mineralogy and Petrology, doi=10.1007/BF01159725
, passage=Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.}}
* {{quote-journal, 2001, date=November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau, Science
, passage=The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas. }}
(lb) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood or marriage); for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family' perhaps at a critical moment, when the ' family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
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(lb) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
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(lb) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
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A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
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(lb) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
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A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
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A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
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Conservative, traditional.
(slang) Homosexual.
Young is a related term of family.
As a proper noun young
is for the younger of two people having the same given name.As a noun family is
(lb) a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood or marriage); for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.As an adjective family is
suitable for children and adults.young
English
(wikipedia young)Adjective
(er)- while the fears of the people were young
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
- Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.
Synonyms
* (born not long ago) youthful, junior * (having qualities of a young person) youthful, juvenile * (of or belonging to the early part of life) juvenile * (inexperienced) underdeveloped, undeveloped, immatureAntonyms
* (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, veteranDerived terms
* bright young thing * eat one's young * sweet young thing * the night is young * the good die young * with young * young adult * young at heart * young blood * young buck * you can't put an old head on young shoulders * young fogey * young gun * youngish * young lady * younglet * younglike * youngling * youngly * youngness * youngsterNoun
(-)- The lion caught a gnu to feed its young .
Verb
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* 1000 English basic wordsfamily
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Noun
citation, passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
Usage notes
* In some dialects, (family) is used as a plurale tantum.Synonyms
* see also * see also nuclear family, immediate family, extended familyDerived terms
* family of curves (matematics)Adjective
(-)- It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.
- Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.
- The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
- I knew he was family when I first met him.