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YOUNG PERSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A young person (especially a young man or boy)
Synonyms:
spring chicken; young person; younker; youth
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("young person" is a kind of...):
juvenile; juvenile person (a young person, not fully developed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "young person"):
blade (a dashing young man)
hobbledehoy (an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy)
pup; puppy (an inexperienced young person)
pupil; school-age child; schoolchild (a young person attending school (up through senior high school))
slip (a young and slender person)
Context examples:
You should learn to think of other people; and, take my word for it, it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and is now desirous of getting those letters back.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"No more raisins, Demi. They'll make you sick," says Mamma to the young person who offers his services in the kitchen with unfailing regularity on plum-pudding day.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Four nieces of Mrs. Jenkinson are most delightfully situated through my means; and it was but the other day that I recommended another young person, who was merely accidentally mentioned to me, and the family are quite delighted with her.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
If you will allow me to take the liberty of remarking that there are few comestibles better, in their way, than a Devil, and that I believe, with a little division of labour, we could accomplish a good one if the young person in attendance could produce a gridiron, I would put it to you, that this little misfortune may be easily repaired.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I pay very little regard, said Mrs. Grant, to what any young person says on the subject of marriage.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Ah! sir—but a thoughtless young person will sometimes step behind a window-curtain, and throw up a sash, without its being suspected.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She persisted in placing his scruples to her account, though Sir Thomas very solemnly assured her that, had there been no young woman in question, had there been no young person of either sex belonging to him, to be endangered by the society or hurt by the character of Mrs. Rushworth, he would never have offered so great an insult to the neighbourhood as to expect it to notice her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
