YOUNG MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does young man mean? 

• YOUNG MAN (noun)
  The noun YOUNG MAN has 1 sense:

1. a teenager or a young adult male

  Familiarity information: YOUNG MAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YOUNG MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A teenager or a young adult male

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

young buck; young man

Hypernyms ("young man" is a kind of...):

adolescent; stripling; teen; teenager (a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity)

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

 Context examples 

It is the general way all young men do.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But there is one comfort, my dear Miss Marianne; he is not the only young man in the world worth having; and with your pretty face you will never want admirers.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If he could stay only a couple of days, he ought to come; and one can hardly conceive a young man's not having it in his power to do as much as that.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Brooke was a grave, silent young man, with handsome brown eyes and a pleasant voice.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It would be done so quickly and so naturally, that I daresay the young man himself has no recollection of it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Vers de Société are a great assistance to a young man.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The young man and his companion often went apart and appeared to weep.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Don't you feel how splendid it is that a young man and a young woman should be able to talk face to face as we have talked?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You seek to force a quarrel, sir,” said the young man, white with anger.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is a young man, full of energy and talent in his own way, and of a very faithful disposition.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)