{
  "id": "young.age",
  "term": "young",
  "sense": "age",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "being of little size and recent in time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "small.size",
      "new.recent",
      "little.size",
      "recent.temporal",
      "size.measurement",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "the combination indicates a being that is recent in time and of little size",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal novelty with small extent",
      "co-occurrence of young duration and limited size",
      "distinctness from merely small or merely new things"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2023 James Webb Space Telescope image of NGC 3324 revealed previously unseen young stars in the Cosmic Cliffs region.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2022, Ukraine's young nuclear engineers operated Zaporizhzhia reactors under wartime conditions after senior staff were detained.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 locust swarms in East Africa consisted mostly of young hoppers that stripped crops across Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "new.recent",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "young is a kind of recent"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "girls.human",
    "kids.human"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "young",
    "younger",
    "youngest"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "definition kept, but components updated to include constitutive concepts that were missing; 'recent.temporal' and 'little.size' added to align with definition's semantics, along with foundational 'siz"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-young.age"
}