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youth

youth

515 1.0
Young people as a group often compared with older people
  • noun
  • /juːθ/
translation icon : juventud
  • I'm saying not just older people, the youth have become like this.
  • youth sports
  • youth behavior
  • youth offenders

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.

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Examples

  • She joins the youth council and goes to meetings.

  • The program was designed to empower youth by teaching them essential life skills.

  • The youth of today are quite something.

  • But along with them also a lot of innocent youth are within prison.

  • And that the youth belong to the future.

  • The examples make the learning concrete and help youth to understand the new information.

    Academic text (2013)
  • I'm saying not just older people, youth have become like this.

  • We're providing a vital service to America's youth here.

  • He says without economic growth, the unemployed youth become unemployable.

  • Unfortunately, this model has failed miserably as more youth are overweight and unfit than ever before.

    Academic text (2015)

Synonyms

young person
vsyouth
777 1.0

A child or teenager who is not yet an adult

refers to people as a group rather than a single individual
teens
vsyouth
13 1.0

The years from 13 to 19

applies to people in that life stage more broadly not only that age span
young
vsyouth
4 1.6

People who are not yet adults considered together as a group

is used for people considered together and contrasted with older generations

Antonyms

1.0

A person who is fully grown and no longer a child

Compounds

A way of life and interests shared by young people

Fountain of Youth
  • Literature
5 8.8

A spring in stories that makes people young again when they drink or bathe

A group of young people who work together for social or political change

3 3.0

A cheap place where young travelers stay and share rooms and kitchens

1 4.2

A group of young people who do crimes or cause trouble

A time when a young person looks and feels their best

A campaign in which young people try to change politics, religion, or society

flower of youth
  • Archaic
7.5

A time in youth when a person has the most energy and hope

A special feeling of wonder and energy in young people

A group of young people who share a style, music, or behaviour different from the wider culture

youth-on-age
  • Specialized
9.9

An indoor plant that makes small baby plants on its leaves

How Elitist

elite group
9 5.0
high society
9 4.2
yuppity crowd
  • Offensive
9.9
professional
401 3.7
local
197 1.2
youth
515 1.0
public
1.0

Surface Forms

youth singular
youths plural

Etymology

Youth comes from an old English word for young plus the ending -th that makes a word about a state. So it first meant the state of being young and later came to mean 'young people' as a group.