• IPA: /juːθ/
• (GA) IPA: /juθ/

youth

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being young.

   Her youth and beauty attracted him to her.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0045 ↗:

     Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

   Synonyms: juvenility, youthfulness
   Antonyms: age, dotage, old age, senility
2. (uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 49:

     I don't find the pose of careless youth charming and engaging any more than you find the pose of careworn age fascinating and eccentric, I should imagine.

   Make the most of your youth, it will not last forever.
   I made many mistakes in my youth, but learned from them all.
3. (countable) A young person.

   There was a group of youths hanging around the parking lot, reading fashion magazines and listening to music.

   Synonyms: adolescent, child, kid, lad, teen, teenager, youngster

   Antonyms: adult, grown-up

4. (countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.

   • […] and then a youth appeared—no one quite knew where from or to whom he belonged—but he settled down with them in a happy-go-lucky way, and they all lived together.

   Synonyms: boy, young man
5. (uncountable, used in plural form) Young persons, collectively.

   Synonyms: adolescents, kids, teenagers, teens, young people, youngsters

• young

• French: jeunesse
• German: Jugend, Jugendlichkeit
• Italian: gioventù, giovinezza
• Portuguese: juventude
• Russian: ю́ность
• Spanish: juventud

• French: jeunesse
• German: Jugend, Jugendzeit
• Italian: giovinezza
• Portuguese: infância
• Russian: мо́лодость
• Spanish: juventud, adolescencia, años mozos (colloquial)

• French: jeune
• German: Jugendlicher, Jugendliche
• Italian: giovane
• Portuguese: jovem
• Russian: молодо́й челове́к
• Spanish: joven, adolescente, mozo, moza, mancebo, zagal

• French: jeune, jeune homme
• German: Heranwachsender, junger Mann, Jugendlicher, Halbwüchsiger
• Italian: giovane, giovanotto, ragazzo
• Portuguese: rapaz, moço, jovem
• Russian: ю́ноша
• Spanish: joven, adolescente, mozo, mancebo

• French: jeunesse, les jeunes
• German: Jugend, Jugendliche
• Italian: gioventù, i giovane
• Portuguese: jovens
• Russian: молодёжь
• Spanish: juventud