youth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an early period of development

   during the youth of the project

2. 2
   noun

   The quality or state of being young.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

   Make the most of your youth, it will not last forever.

4. 4
   noun

   A young person.

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

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   Young persons, collectively.

   The actual brides- and grooms-to-be are not in attendance—many youth would be embarrassed by their parents’ matchmaking efforts, and often do not live in the same city anyway.

7. 7
   noun

   the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

8. 8
   noun

   young people collectively

Etymology

From Middle English youthe, youghte, ȝouþe, from Old English ġeoguþ (“the state of being young; youth”), from Proto-West Germanic *juwunþa, from Proto-Germanic *jugunþō, *jugunþiz (“youth”), corresponding to young + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Juugd, West Frisian jeugd, Dutch jeugd, German Low German Jöögd, German Jugend.