YOUTH

Pronunciation (US):

• 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.

• YOUTH (noun)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)