youth
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- noun
- /juːθ/
- The older I get, the more I empathize with youth making mistakes.
- much of one's youth
- childhood and youth
- youth and age
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Watch on YouTubeI remember in my youth, younger years, that.
- I remember in my youth, younger years, that.
- I wasted a lot of my youth not getting good at pool.
- So I didn't feel like I was doing my youth correctly.
- And it's all the way through my youth and my studies.
- So in his youth, he's willing to go all in.
- Could be a story of pain from their youth, of abuse.
- Well, if you can see the end game, your youth will not be wasted on you.
- But I did in my youth have a very bad hard man image.
- Because I've spent a good deal of my, well, certainly my youth surrounded by black people.
- But could youth last, and love still breed?
- But up until that, yeah, in my youth, I mean, my mom, that was your Rob.
- OK, so, so like in our youth, but not to the level like in our youth.
Examples
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Lainey had learned to skate in her youth and was better at it than David.
Fiction book (1990) -
But first I wanted to talk about youth homelessness in the UK.
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What I learned that youth brings is hope.
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And it's all the way through my youth and my studies.
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And I spent many, many, much of my youth in Vancouver.
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I wasted a lot of my youth not getting good at pool.
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Schools are usually the first social and institutional spaces in which immigrant youth engage in cultural adaptation.
Academic text (2013) -
James read Emerson's essays and poems early in his youth and throughout his adulthood.
Academic text (2017) -
"Twenty years later he wrote that in my youth you read Shakespeare, Shelley, George Meredith, Dostoevsky, Ibsen."
Academic text (1990) -
During his youth, he traveled to many different countries, exploring new cultures.
Synonyms
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The years from 13 to 19
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3.9
A time between childhood and adulthood when a person changes physically and emotionally and becomes more independent
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The time when someone is a boy
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The state of being young
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
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A spring in stories that makes people young again when they drink or bathe
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A group of young people who share a style, music, or behaviour different from the wider culture
How Young
Surface Forms
Etymology
Youth comes from the same old root as young with the ending -th that marks a time or state. That is why youth means the period between childhood and adulthood.