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youth

DEFINITIONS OF: youth

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n a young person (especially a young man or boy)

Synonyms:
spring chicken, young person, younker
Types:
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blade
a dashing young man
hobbledehoy
an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy
pup, puppy
an inexperienced young person
pupil, school-age child, schoolchild
a young person attending school (up through senior high school)
slip
a young and slender person
boarder
a pupil who lives at school during term time
day boarder
a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home
latchkey child
a school-age child who is home without adult supervision for part of the day (especially after school until a parent returns home from work)
schoolboy
a boy attending school
Type of:
juvenile, juvenile person
a young person, not fully developed

n young people collectively

“youth everywhere rises in revolt”
Synonyms:
young
Antonyms:
aged, elderly
people who are old collectively
Type of:
age bracket, age group, cohort
a group of people having approximately the same age

n the time of life between childhood and maturity

Type of:
time of life
a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state

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

Type of:
matureness, maturity
state of being mature; full development

n an early period of development

“during the youth of the project”
Synonyms:
early days
Type of:
period, period of time, time period
an amount of time

n the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

Synonyms:
juvenility, youthfulness
Type of:
youngness
the opposite of oldness
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