YOUTH
Dictionary entry overview: What does youth mean?
• 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.
Dictionary entry details
• 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)
