youth

[Youth]

If you're not a little kid anymore, but you're not really an adult yet, you can describe this period of your life as your youth.

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The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.

Noun
the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

Noun
young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt"

Noun
a young person (especially a young man or boy)

Noun
early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced

Noun
the time of life between childhood and maturity

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Noun
an early period of development; "during the youth of the project"


pl.
of Youth

n.
The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.

n.
The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.

n.
A young person; especially, a young man.

n.
Young persons, collectively.


Youth

Youth (&umac;th), n.; pl. Youths (&umac;ths; 264) or collectively Youth. [OE. youthe, youhþe, 'f4uhe'ebe, 'f4uwe'ebe, 'f4eo'f4e'ebe, AS. geogu'eb, geogo'eb; akin to OS. jug'eb, D. jeugd, OHG. jugund, G. jugend, Goth. junda. 'fb281. See Young.] 1. The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. "In my flower of youth." Milton.
Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial.
2. The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.
He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home.
Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly.
3. A young person; especially, a young man.
Seven youths from Athens yearly sent.
4. Young persons, collectively.
It is fit to read the best authors to youth first.

Youthful

Youth"ful , a. 1. Not yet mature or aged; young. "Two youthful knights." Dryden. Also used figuratively. "The youthful season of the year." Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. "Warm, youthful blood." Shak. "Youthful thoughts." Milton. 3. Fresh; vigorous, as in youth.
After millions of millions of ages . . . still youthful and flourishing.
Syn. -- Puerile; juvenile. -- Youthful, Puerile, Juvenile. Puerile is always used in a bad sense, or at least in the sense of what is suitable to a boy only; as, puerile objections, puerile amusements, etc. Juvenile is sometimes taken in a bad sense, as when speaking of youth in contrast with manhood; as, juvenile tricks; a juvenile performance. Youthful is commonly employed in a good sense; as, youthful aspirations; or at least by way of extenuating; as, youthful indiscretions. "Some men, imagining themselves possessed with a divine fury, often fall into toys and trifles, which are only puerilities." Dryden. "Raw, juvenile writers imagine that, by pouring forth figures often, they render their compositions warm and animated." Blair. -- Youth"ful*ly, adv. -- Youth"ful*ness, n.

The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.

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Usage Examples

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Age considers youth ventures.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.

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