youth
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- noun
- /juːθ/
- I'm saying not just older people, the youth have become like this.
- youth sports
- youth behavior
- youth offenders
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Watch on YouTubeOlder men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.
- Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.
- I don't I don't like to see the youth throw their life away.
- But for any advice for the youth, yeah, please don't.
- I'm trying to think of like what the youth say, like when something's true.
- Tech seems to be taking over the youth in Africa.
- But here's the thing, Turning Point is like, it's like the youth MAGA organization.
- And when it comes to athletics, just youth athletics, inclusion is priority.
- I think it was like an LGBTQ plus youth center.
- Yes, we need to tell the youths trucking doesn't have to be isolating.
- You know, this isn't, this is these are issues that I think youth face across the board.
- But a lot of our Member States are working also on youth employment initiatives.
- You know, every change in music has basically started with youth and youth branding.
Examples
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She joins the youth council and goes to meetings.
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The program was designed to empower youth by teaching them essential life skills.
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The youth of today are quite something.
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But along with them also a lot of innocent youth are within prison.
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And that the youth belong to the future.
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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.
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We're providing a vital service to America's youth here.
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He says without economic growth, the unemployed youth become unemployable.
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Unfortunately, this model has failed miserably as more youth are overweight and unfit than ever before.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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A child or teenager who is not yet an adult
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The years from 13 to 19
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People who are not yet adults considered together as a group
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
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A spring in stories that makes people young again when they drink or bathe
A group of young people who share a style, music, or behaviour different from the wider culture
How Elitist
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- Offensive
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Surface Forms
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.