"yong" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "yonger",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yongest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "yong (comparative yonger, superlative yongest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "young"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w"
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
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        {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature H, verso:",
          "text": "I ſpeake not like a dotard, nor a foole,\nAs vnder priuiledge of age to bragge,\nWhat I haue done being yong, or what would doe,\nWere I not old, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1608 (edition), Simon Patericke (translator), Innocent Gentillet (author), A DISCOVRSE VPON THE MEANES OF WEL GOVERNING AND MAINTAINING IN GOOD PEACE, A KINGDOME, OR OTHER PRINCIPALITIE, pages 238 and 250",
          "roman": "knowing also many yong Romane gentlemen",
          "text": "caused the yong king\n[…]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of young."
      ],
      "id": "en-yong-en-adj--QjLoOmD",
      "links": [
        [
          "young",
          "young#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "yong bell"
        },
        {
          "word": "yong tau foo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yong"
}

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    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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    {
      "form": "yonger",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yongest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "yong (comparative yonger, superlative yongest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "yong bell"
    },
    {
      "word": "yong tau foo"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "young"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature H, verso:",
          "text": "I ſpeake not like a dotard, nor a foole,\nAs vnder priuiledge of age to bragge,\nWhat I haue done being yong, or what would doe,\nWere I not old, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1608 (edition), Simon Patericke (translator), Innocent Gentillet (author), A DISCOVRSE VPON THE MEANES OF WEL GOVERNING AND MAINTAINING IN GOOD PEACE, A KINGDOME, OR OTHER PRINCIPALITIE, pages 238 and 250",
          "roman": "knowing also many yong Romane gentlemen",
          "text": "caused the yong king\n[…]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of young."
      ],
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        [
          "young",
          "young#English"
        ]
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  "word": "yong"
}