youth
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
youth
- (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
- (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:
- Make the most of your youth, it will not last forever.
- I made many mistakes in my youth, but learned from them all.
- (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
- (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
- (uncountable, used in plural form) Young persons, collectively.
- 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
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