A young person, a youth. In later use chiefly in plural, with the: young people as a class. Now rare.

A young person (variously, depending on context, a young adult, youth, or child); a youngster. Now chiefly archaic, literary, or humorous.

Chiefly in plural. A child of either sex; a young person. Now Irish English (Wexford).

A young person; esp. a young man between boyhood and mature age; sometimes, esp. in earlier use, more widely (see quots.).

a young person or animal, a youngster; (in plural) an animal's offspring (cf. sense B. 2).

A son or daughter; a child. Cf. branch I. Obsolete except in whore's bird n. at whore, n. compounds 2.

A young man or woman; spec. a person who is no longer considered a child, but has not reached the age of majority.

A lively or energetic young person; spec. a confident, high-spirited young man; (esp. in the 18th cent.) a rake, a dandy; an unruly young…

figurative. The first or best; the finest or a fine example of something; the ‘flower’, ‘pearl’, ‘pink of perfection’ (see pink, n.5 3). Also as…

A young person of either sex, esp. one of small or slender build.

A youth; a ‘juvenile’.

depreciative. A person, esp. a youth. Chiefly in young quat. archaic and rare after 17th cent.

A young, thoughtless person. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. Applied contemptuously to a young person.

transferred. A young or inexperienced person.

A person considered as no better than a child. ‘Generally used of young persons in contempt’ (Johnson); now, mostly of a girl or young woman.

With of (introducing descriptive term), esp. in a slip of a girl. (Cf. sense 8.)

A young person; a youth.

A person in his or her teens or early twenties; (now) esp. a person in his or her mid to late teens, an adolescent. In plural: such people…

(slang.) An appellation given to the youngest officer in a regiment, junior member of a club, etc.

Applied to persons in depreciation or contempt. In later use: A young, slight, or diminutive person.

colloquial (originally U.S.). A young person. Frequently in to be no spring chicken and variants: to be no longer young. Cf. chicken, n. 7.

Chiefly English regional (London). A boy, a youth; (later also) a man, a ‘bloke’. Now rare.

slang. A young man or woman. colloquial (originally U.S.).

A child or youngster; a youth.

a person below the legal age of responsibility and above a certain minimum age, who is held to be punishable for breaking the law (the term was…

young adult.

Youth; young people collectively, esp. viewed by others as a constituency to be catered for (as regards entertainment, marketing, etc.); also spec.…