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youth

/juθ/noun1 syllable

Youth means: a young person (especially a young man or boy).

Synonyms for youth22

noun, as in a young person (especially a young man or boy)

young person, younker, spring chicken

noun, as in the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

youthfulness, juvenility

noun, as in young people collectively

young

noun, as in an early period of development

early days

also used for youth

youngness, youngth, adolescent, child, kid, lad, teen, teenager, youngster, boy, young man, adolescents, kids, teenagers, teens

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What does youth mean?6

noun

1

a young person (especially a young man or boy)

2

the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

3

young people collectively“rock music appeals to the young”

4

an early period of development“during the youth of the project”

5

the time of life between childhood and maturity

6

early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with youth?4

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Youth in a sentence

  • He never loses his curiosity; he is, as it were, an eternal youth.xtofu80
  • In the course of our conversation, he referred to his youth.CM
  • When you employ him, you must make allowances for his youth.unknown
  • Koga, what on earth happened in your youth?unknown
  • In her youth, my mother was very beautiful.blay_paul
  • Whoever starts working in their youth, gets to live lavishly when they're older.Serhiy
  • Don't waste your youth, otherwise you'll regret it later.LittleBoy
  • Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.BraveSentry

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Forms of youth

as a noun

plural
youths