单词 | youthhood |
释义 | youthhoodn. Now rare or archaic. 1. a. = youth n. 1 – 3. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun] > state, quality, or fact of youthhood971 youtha1100 youthheadc1220 youngnessc1350 tenderc1400 youthnessc1475 unripenessa1500 youthlikeness1549 youthfulness1587 primeve1619 juvenility1623 infantility1631 youthfullity1763 youthiness1821 underdevelopment1891 vealiness1895 971 Blickl. Hom. 59 Swa þonne gelice bið þære menniscan gecynde þæs lichoman, þonne se geogoþ-had ærest bloweþ & fægerost bið. a1050 Liber Scintill. lxii. (1889) 189 Se þe estelice fram geoguðhade [L. pueritia] fet þeow his þær~æfter hyne ongyt ofermodigne. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 253 Of Alle þine ealdes. of child had of ȝeuȝeðehad. b. figurative. Early stage or period: = youth n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > newness, freshness, or originality > early stage of existence or the world prime timea1556 boyhood?1577 youth1604 pupillage1606 youthhood1828 foretime1853 earlies1927 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. xii. 343 The native of a land where, in the youthhood of the Republic, a nation's independence had broke forth. 1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest 101 And night and day its crystal heart doth yearn To wed its youthhood with the sea's old age. 2. concrete. Young people collectively: = youth n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > young people collectively youngeOE youthc897 maidhooda1200 youngth1484 youthhead1562 frya1577 younkery1594 Jack and Jill1621 jeunesse1673 youthhood1690 juvenility1823 jeunesse dorée1828 flaming youth1923 yoof1986 1690 J. Mackenzie Siege London-derry 48 The Youth~hood by a strange impulse ran in one Body and shut the Gates. 1850 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. (ed. 2) xxviii. 412 The urchin who, in behalf of the outraged youthhood of the place, wore the white sheet on this interesting occasion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.971 |
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