jeune

Meaning

Adj

1. young
2. who has recently acquired a new status, who has newly become something (without being necessarily young in absolute terms)

Noun

youth, a young person

Concepts

young

youth

small

youngster

young person

youthful

adolescent

junior

juvenile

teenager

child

cygnet

immature

little

young stage

younger

offspring

modest

younker

boy

fledgling

fledging

fasting

underfeeding

green

lad

teenage

medium

young woman

young man

younger sibling

cion

scion

shoot

spear

sprout

new

belittled

diminished

tiger cub

minuscule

humble

low

lowly

microscopic

microscopical

juvenility

youthfulness

spring chicken

teen

vernal

unpracticed

yonge

scaturiginous

youngling

youthly

junker

baba

baby

bambino

booby

children

girl

greenhorn

kid

kiddie

kiddy

pupil

schoolchild

stopple

toddler

yearling

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʒœn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French jeune, from Old French juene, juefne, from Vulgar Latin *iŏvenem, from Latin iuvenem.

Sentences

Elle perd ses deux parents respectifs très jeune .

She loses both of her respective parents very young.

Une jeune femme l'accompagne dans sa fuite à travers le désert du Mexique .

A young woman accompanies him on his escape through the Mexican desert.

Sung-nam, un jeune peintre coréen , doit , pour échapper à une arrestation fuir son pays .

Sung-nam, a young Korean painter, must flee his country to escape arrest.

Il est très jeune , très actif , il a un sens inné de l'actualité.

He is very young, very active, he has an innate sense of topicality.

Il y joue un jeune collégien tombant amoureuse de sœurs jumelles .

He plays a young schoolboy who falls in love with twin sisters.

Les passagers du yacht et le jeune capitaine descendirent dans le carré.

The passengers of the yacht and the young captain descended into the square.

Dre , quelques titres du jeune rappeur , repéré par le staff du label .

Dre, some songs by the young rapper, spotted by the label's staff.

Le jeune substitut de Boucher , Jacques Sully Brunet, est également écarté du dossier .

Boucher's young substitute, Jacques Sully Brunet, is also removed from the file.