youth
IPA: jˈuθ
noun
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being young.
- (uncountable) 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.
- (countable) A young person.
- (countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
- (uncountable, used with a plural or singular verb) Young persons, collectively.
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Examples of "youth" in Sentences
- She inveigles youth to drink.
- I recaptured the spirit of youth.
- Such are just the peccadillos of youth.
- The is the Swedish youth probation agency.
- Homesickness is especially common in youth.
- This led to the outbreak of youth activism.
- It was the time of youth and conscienceless.
- The majority of the youth is literate in India.
- Such is the nature of youth and a voracious disposition.
- As a child, he played in the Germinal Beerschot youth ranks.
- Then, trying to prove he was old, he sang a tune that goes How do I know my youth is all spent?
- The fact that the youth is answering this question in the negative means they are either grossly overvaluing their time or grossly undervaluing their vote.
- In her own mind she set down Nathanael Harper as "a very odd sort of youth" -- (_a youth_ she still persisted in calling him) -- and turned again to his brother.
- Although not an exact definition, in a legal context the term youth typically implies that the person is under the age of 18 and may have some avenue to escape being tried as an adult.
- II. iii.11 (49,1) [Who falling in the flaws of her own youth, Hath blister'd her report] Who doth not see that the integrity of the metaphor requires we should read, -- _flames of her own youth_?
- When the youth group interrupted the webcast to deliver the message that real Americans want clean energy and a fair climate treaty, Monckton went ballistic, calling the students \ "crazed Hitler youth\" and \ "Nazis.
- So instead of "The nature of youth is thoughtless and sanguine, and therefore &c.," we can write, "The danger of the voyage was depreciated and the beauty of the island exaggerated by _the thoughtless nature of youth_."
- "In the beginning," said the Nurse, dreamily, "the men in their uniforms, the drums and horses and glitter, and the flags passing, and youth -- _youth_ -- not that you and I are yet old in years; do you know what I mean?"
- "So irrepressible in youth is the thrust to become," one specialist has warned, "that it will surface somehow, if not in constructive self-expression, then in wilful vandalism or defiant apathy or even suicide as an ultimate, tragic expression of self-determination."