Noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see young, man.
Synonym: (male) youth
A term of endearment or admonishment by adults for a young boy.
I cant understand you, young man, can you point to the one you want?
(dated) A male lover; a sweetheart.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgThe young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. Sydney J. Harris
No young man believes he shall ever die. William Hazlitt
If the young man knew, if the old man could, there is nothing but would be done. Italian Proverb
The mysterious road beckons the young man. Angolan Proverb
A young man married is a young man marred. Danish Proverb