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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

nonyoung en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + young.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not young.
    • The nonyoung, the nonmale, and the nonwhite have known that their vocational options were restricted[…] 1975, The Vocational Guidance Quarterly, volume 24, page 366:
    • Thus the so-called youth culture is really a culture of nonyoung people who have decided to dissolve their adulthood and absorb it into patterns once considered appropriate only for children and adolescents. 1990, Lawrence Meir Friedman, The Republic of Choice, page 170: