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Youth - definition of youth by The Free Dictionary Youth - definition of youth by The Free Dictionary https://www.thefreedictionary.com/youth Printer Friendly youth Also found in: Thesaurus , Medical , Acronyms , Idioms , Encyclopedia , Wikipedia . youth (yo͞oth) n. pl. youths (yo͞oths, yo͞o th z) 1. a. The condition or quality of being young: Travel while you still have your youth. b. The time of life between childhood and maturity: He was rebellious in his youth. c. An early period of development or existence: a nation in its youth. 2. a. A young person, especially a young male in late adolescence. b. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Young people considered as a group. 3. Geology The first stage in the erosion cycle. [Middle English youthe , from Old English geoguth ; see yeu- in Indo-European roots .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. youth ( juːθ ) n , pl youths ( juːðz ) 1. the quality or condition of being young, immature, or inexperienced: his youth told against him in the contest . 2. the period between childhood and maturity, esp adolescence and early adulthood 3. the freshness, vigour, or vitality characteristic of young people: youth shone out from her face . 4. any period of early development: the project was in its youth . 5. a young person, esp a young man or boy 6. (Sociology) young people collectively: youth everywhere is rising in revolt . [Old English geogoth; related to Old Frisian jogethe, Old High German iugund, Gothic junda, Latin juventus ] ˈyouthless adj Youth ( juːθ ) n (Placename) Isle of Youth an island in the NW Caribbean, south of Cuba: administratively part of Cuba from 1925. Chief town: Nueva Gerona. Pop: 80 600 (2002 est). Area: 3061 sq km (1182 sq miles). Former name: Isle of Pines Spanish name: Isla de la Juventud Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 youth (yuθ) n., pl. youths (yuθs, yuðz) ( collectively ) youth. 1. the condition of being young. 2. the appearance, freshness, vigor, spirit, etc., characteristic of the young. 3. the time of being young; early life. 4. the period of life from puberty to the attainment of full growth; adolescence. 5. the first or early period of anything. 6. young persons collectively. 7. a young person, esp. a young man. [before 900; Middle English youthe, Old English geoguth, c. Old Saxon juguth, Old High German jugund; see young , -th 1 ] Youth (yuθ) n. Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, south of and belonging to Cuba. 68,700; 1182 sq. mi. (3061 sq. km). Formerly, Isle of Pines. Spanish, Isla de la Juventud. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Youth See Also: AGE As young as truth —Dante Gabriel Rossetti At sixty-eight, he is as pink and fat as a baby, ingenuous as a teenager —T. Coraghessan Boyle Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions —André Malraux Childish, like believing in Beauty and the Beast —Janet Flanner Each youth is like a child born in the night who sees the sun rise and thinks that yesterday never existed —W. Somerset Maugham He is like one of those young-old engineers at Boeing, who at seventy wear bow ties and tinker in their workshops —Walker Percy It is like a long hopeless homesickness … missing those young days —Grace Paley Like the tongue that seeks the missing tooth I yearned for my extracted youth —Ogden Nash Looked about sixteen and as defenseless as a babe at a Mafia convention —Jimmy Sangster Midway between youth and age like a man who has missed his train: too late for the last and too early for the next —George Bernard Shaw Seemed as perpetually youthful as movie stars —Donald Justice She was just eighteen, rich and warm as one eagerly waiting for the play to begin —Arthur Schopenhauer Their [young people’s] impulses are keen but not deep-rooted … like sick people’s attacks of hunger —Aristotle The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind —Lord Chesterfield Youth … flashing like a star out of the twilight —Willa Cather The simile is from an introductory poem to Cather’s novel, O Pioneer. Youthful rashness skips like a hare over the meshes of good counsel —William Shakespeare Youth is like spring, an overpraised season: delightful if it happen to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes —Samuel Butler Youth … it did not go by me like a flitting dream. Tuesdays and Wednesdays were as gay as Saturday nights —Grace Paley Youth like summer morn … youth like summer brave —William Shakespeare Shakespeare used these similes in his poem, The Passionate Pilgrim, to describe the pleasures of youth, alternating them with comparisons about age and the weather. See Also: AGE (My) youth passed like a sleep —Dame Edith Sitwell Similes Dictionary, 1st Edition. © 1988 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Thesaurus Antonyms Related Words Synonyms Legend: Switch to new thesaurus Noun 1. youth - a young person (especially a young man or boy) spring chicken , young person , younker juvenile , juvenile person - a young person, not fully developed blade - a dashing young man; "gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures" hobbledehoy - an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy pup , puppy - an inexperienced young person school-age child , schoolchild , pupil - a young person attending school (up through senior high school) slip - a young and slender person; "he's a mere slip of a lad" 2. youth - young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt" young age bracket , age group , cohort - a group of people having approximately the same age 3. youth - the time of life between childhood and maturity time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state adolescence - the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood bloom of youth , salad days , bloom - the best time of youth 4. youth - early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced matureness , maturity - state of being mature; full development 5. youth - an early period of development; "during the youth of the project" early days period , period of time , time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" 6. youth - the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person youthfulness , juvenility youngness - the opposite of oldness Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. youth noun 1. immaturity , adolescence , early life , young days , boyhood or girlhood , salad days , juvenescence the comic books of my youth immaturity age , maturity , old age , adulthood , later life , manhood or womanhood 2. youthfulness , youngness , freshness The team is now a good mixture of experience and youth. 3. boy , lad , youngster , kid (informal) , teenager , young man , adolescent , teen (informal) , stripling , young shaver (informal) gangs of youths who broke windows and looted shops boy grown-up , adult , pensioner , senior citizen , OAP 4. young people , the young , the younger generation , teenagers , the rising generation He represents the opinions of the youth of today. young people old people , the old , the aged , the elderly Quotations "Youth's a stuff will not endure" [William Shakespeare] "Twelfth Night" "Young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect" [Dr. Johnson] "Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself anything, is forgiven nothing" [George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists ] "Whom the gods love dies young" [Menander Mouostichoi ] "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive," "But to be young was very heaven" [William Wordsworth The Prelude ] "Youth is a disease that must be borne with patiently! Time, indeed, will cure it" [R.H. Benson] "I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own" [Margaret Atwood Hair Jewelry ] "Hope I die before I get old" [Pete Townshend My Generation ] Proverbs "Youth must be served" Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002 youth noun 1. The time of life between childhood and maturity: adolescence , greenness , juvenescence , juvenility , puberty , salad days , spring , youthfulness . 2. A young person, usually between the ages of 13 and 19: adolescent , teen , teenager . Informal: teener . 3. Young people collectively: young . The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Translations الشَّباب جيل الشَّباب شابٌّ شَباب младеж младост abril joventut mládí mladík mládež ungdom ungt menneske de unge Jugend Jugendliche Jugendlicher Jüngling νεολαία νεότητα νιάτα junulo juventud joven nuoruus nuoruusikä nuoret nuori nuorimies jeunesse jeune jeune homme mladost omladina mladež fiatalok fiatalság serdülőkor fiatal æska, ungdómur unglingar unglingur gioventù giovane giovanotto ragazzo adolescenza 青春時代 청소년 jaunatviškai jaunatviškas jaunatviškumas jaunuolis jaunystė jaunatne jaunība jaunieši jaunietis pusaudzis jeugd ungdomstid młodzież młodość młodzieniec juventude rapaz jovens молодость юность молодёжь молодой человек юноша mladost mladina ungdom วัยหนุ่มสาว gençlik delikanlı delikanlılık genç gençler tuổi trẻ 青春 十五到二十岁的青