'Youth' definitions:
Definition of 'youth'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
Young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt" [syn: young, youth] [ant: aged, elderly]
noun
The time of life between childhood and maturity
noun
Early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced
noun
An early period of development; "during the youth of the project" [syn: youth, early days]
noun
The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person [syn: youth, youthfulness, juvenility]
Definition of 'Youth'
From: GCIDE
- Youth \Youth\ ([=u]th), n.; pl. Youths ([=u]ths; 264) or collectively Youth. [OE. youthe, youh[thorn]e, [yogh]uhe[eth]e, [yogh]uwe[eth]e, [yogh]eo[yogh]e[eth]e, AS. geogu[eth], geogo[eth]; akin to OS. jugu[eth], D. jeugd, OHG. jugund, G. jugend, Goth. junda. [root]281. See Young.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. "In my flower of youth." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood. [1913 Webster]
- He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly. --Rambler. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A young person; especially, a young man. [1913 Webster]
- Seven youths from Athens yearly sent. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Young persons, collectively. [1913 Webster]
- It is fit to read the best authors to youth first. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Youth'
From: GCIDE
- Youth \Youth\ ([=u]th), n.; pl. Youths ([=u]ths; 264) or collectively Youth. [OE. youthe, youh[thorn]e, [yogh]uhe[eth]e, [yogh]uwe[eth]e, [yogh]eo[yogh]e[eth]e, AS. geogu[eth], geogo[eth]; akin to OS. jugu[eth], D. jeugd, OHG. jugund, G. jugend, Goth. junda. [root]281. See Young.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. "In my flower of youth." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood. [1913 Webster]
- He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly. --Rambler. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A young person; especially, a young man. [1913 Webster]
- Seven youths from Athens yearly sent. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Young persons, collectively. [1913 Webster]
- It is fit to read the best authors to youth first. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'youth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adolescence,
- adolescent,
- adolescents,
- awkward age,
- baby,
- babyhood,
- beginnings,
- birth,
- boy,
- boyhood,
- bub,
- bubba,
- buck,
- bud,
- buddy,
- callowness,
- chick,
- child,
- childhood,
- childkind,
- children,
- chit,
- colt,
- cradle,
- cub,
- damsel,
- demoiselle,
- dewiness,
- fellow,
- fledgling,
- freshman year,
- genesis,
- girl,
- girlhood,
- greenness,
- hobbledehoy,
- hopeful,
- immaturity,
- inception,
- inchoation,
- incipience,
- incipiency,
- incunabula,
- inexperience,
- infancy,
- infant,
- junior,
- juvenal,
- juvenile,
- juveniles,
- juvenility,
- kid,
- kids,
- lad,
- laddie,
- lass,
- lassie,
- little kids,
- mademoiselle,
- maid,
- maiden,
- manchild,
- master,
- minor,
- minority,
- moppet,
- muchacho,
- nascence,
- nascency,
- nativity,
- new generation,
- origin,
- origination,
- parturition,
- pregnancy,
- prime,
- puberty,
- pubescence,
- pubescent,
- pup,
- puppy,
- rising generation,
- salad days,
- sapling,
- schoolboy,
- schoolgirl,
- slip,
- small fry,
- sonny,
- sonny boy,
- sprig,
- spring,
- springtide,
- springtime,
- stripling,
- tad,
- teen,
- teenager,
- teener,
- teenybopper,
- tots,
- unripeness,
- whelp,
- whippersnapper,
- young,
- young blood,
- young fry,
- young hopeful,
- young man,
- young people,
- young person,
- younger,
- youngest,
- youngling,
- youngster,
- youngsters,
- youthfulness,
- youthhood