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YOUTH

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YOUTH (noun)
  The noun YOUTH has 6 senses:

1. a young person (especially a young man or boy)
2. young people collectively
3. the time of life between childhood and maturity
4. early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced
5. an early period of development
6. the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

  Familiarity information: YOUTH used as a noun is common.


English dictionary: Word details


YOUTH (noun)


Sense 1youth [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

A young person (especially a young man or boy)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

youth; younker; young person; spring chicken

Hypernyms ("youth" is a kind of...):

juvenile; juvenile person (a youthful person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "youth"):

blade (a dashing young man)

hobbledehoy (an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy)

pup; puppy (an inexperienced young person)

pupil; school-age child; schoolchild (a young person attending school (up through senior high school))

slip (a young and slender person)


Sense 2youth [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Young people collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

youth; young

Context examples:

rock music appeals to the young / youth everywhere rises in revolt

Hypernyms ("youth" is a kind of...):

age bracket; age group; cohort (a group people having approximately the same age)


Sense 3youth [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

The time of life between childhood and maturity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("youth" is a kind of...):

time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)

Meronyms (parts of "youth"):

adolescence (the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood)

bloom; bloom of youth; salad days (the best time of youth)


Sense 4youth [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("youth" is a kind of...):

matureness; maturity (state of being mature; full development)


Sense 5youth [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

An early period of development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

early days; youth

Context example:

during the youth of the project

Hypernyms ("youth" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)


Sense 6youth [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

youthfulness; juvenility; youth

Hypernyms ("youth" is a kind of...):

youngness (the opposite of oldness)


English Proverbs
"Paddle your own canoe."
(English proverb)
"Flattering words will not be spoken from the mouth of an affectionate person."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"Lies are the plague of speech."
(Arabic proverb)
"Even fleas want to cough."
(Corsican proverb)


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