youthnoun
uk/juːθ/us/juːθ/youth noun (PERIOD/STATE)
B2 [ S or U ] the period of your life when you are young, or the state of being young:
I was a fairly good football player in my youth.
The first volume is the author's account of his misspent youth in the bars of Dublin.
He looks like a man who's found the secret to eternal youth (= staying young).
You may not have played tennis as often as him, but at least you've got youth on your side (= you are young).
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- The old man talked about the departed triumphs of his youth.
- The whole play can be interpreted as a lament for lost youth.
- The novel follows the progression of a woman from youth to middle age.
- The youth died of multiple burns.
- A gang of youths were loitering outside the cinema.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stages of life
- adolescence
- adulthood
- arrive
- autumn
- autumn years idiom
- babyhood
- decline
- get on
- girlhood
- glory days
- golden age
- heyday
- middle-aged
- middlescence
- midlife
- midlife crisis
- old age
- those were the days idiom
- twilight
- twilight years idiom
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youth noun (BOY)
[ C ] disapproving a boy or a young man:
Gangs of youths were throwing stones and bottles at the police.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Young people
- adolescence
- adolescent
- boyhood
- delinquent
- emo
- girlhood
- grow
- laddish
- mall rat
- minor
- punk
- skinhead
- Teddy boy
- teens
- tween
- tweenager
- yoof
- young blood
- young lady/man idiom
- yute
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youth noun (YOUNG PEOPLE)
B1 [ U, + sing/pl verb ] young people, both male and female, considered as a group:
the youth of today
the nation's disaffected youth
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Young people
- adolescence
- adolescent
- boyhood
- delinquent
- emo
- girlhood
- grow
- laddish
- mall rat
- minor
- punk
- skinhead
- Teddy boy
- teens
- tween
- tweenager
- yoof
- young blood
- young lady/man idiom
- yute
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