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youth

youth

164 1.0
The time between childhood and adulthood when someone is young
  • noun
  • /juːθ/
translation icon : juventud
  • The older I get, the more I empathize with youth making mistakes.
  • much of one's youth
  • childhood and youth
  • youth and age

I remember in my youth, younger years, that.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • What I learned that youth brings is hope.

  • And it's all the way through my youth and my studies.

  • And I spent many, many, much of my youth in Vancouver.

  • I wasted a lot of my youth not getting good at pool.

  • 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

adolescence
vsyouth
60 3.9

A time between childhood and adulthood when a person changes physically and emotionally and becomes more independent

is the general time of being young without stressing puberty or changes
boyhood
vsyouth
33 2.0

The time when someone is a boy

is the young period for anyone rather than only male childhood
teens
vsyouth
13 1.0

The years from 13 to 19

is the broader young period not limited to those exact ages
youngness
vsyouth
4.2

The state of being young

refers to the period between childhood and adulthood rather than the abstract quality

Antonyms

61 3.1

The time in life when a person is fully grown and has more responsibilities

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 Young

infancy
35 3.7
childhood
687 1.0
youth
164 1.0
adulthood
61 3.1
old age
109 2.0

Surface Forms

youth singular
youths plural

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.