WordNet
young person
n. a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: youth, younker, spring chicken]
Usage examples of "young person".
I would not presume to imply that I was the only young person ill-used by what became of my native culture.
Cinderella was a young person who was placed in the care of various wicked people who teased her and forced her to do all the chores.
In the hospital the physical therapist, an encouraging young person named Penny Featherwight, had several techniques for getting in and out of the chair, but they all had to do with chair/bed and chair/chair situations.
On entering adult life, however, a young person so educated will find himself or herself plunged into a world full of injustice, full of cruelty, full of preventable misery.