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English
Adjective
yong (comparative yonger, superlative yongest)
- Obsolete spelling of young.
- 1608 (edition), Simon Patericke (translator), Innocent Gentillet (author), A DISCOVRSE VPON THE MEANES OF WEL GOVERNING AND MAINTAINING IN GOOD PEACE, A KINGDOME, OR OTHER PRINCIPALITIE, pages 238 and 250:
- caused the yong king
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- knowing also many yong Romane gentlemen
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Romanization
yong
- Nonstandard spelling of yōng.
- Nonstandard spelling of yóng.
- Nonstandard spelling of yǒng.
- Nonstandard spelling of yòng.
Middle English
- yonge, yongge, young, younge, yung, yunge, iunge, yoing, yeng, yenge, ying, yinge, yyng, ynge, yhong, yhonge, yhung, yhyng, ȝohng, ȝeing, ȝhong, ȝong, ȝonge, ȝoung, ȝounge, ȝung, ȝunge, ȝungge, ȝeng, ȝenge, ȝing, ȝinge, ȝyng, ȝynge, ȝyonge, ȝonke, ȝoyng, ȝeonge, ȝuinge, ȝeunge, ȝiung, gunge, ging, ginge, jung
Etymology
From Old English ġeong.
Pronunciation
Adjective
yong (comparative yongere, superlative yongeste)
- Early in growth or life; young.
- Characteristic of a young person; youthful.
- (figurative) Innocent.
- Having little experience; inexperienced, unpractised.
- Being the younger of two people of the same name, usually related; junior.
- At an early stage of existence or development.
- (of meat) Tender.
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