Thesaurus: youth

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1. pl. of Youth
2. n. The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.
3. n. The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.
4. n. A young person; especially, a young man.
5. n. Young persons, collectively.
6. n. a young person (especially a young man or boy)
7. n. young people collectively
8. n. the time of life between childhood and maturity
9. n. early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced
10. n. an early period of development
11. n. the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
12. 1. The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. "In my flower of youth." Milton. Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial. Milton. 2. The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood. He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home. Shak. Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly. Rambler. 3. A young person; especially, a young man. Seven youths from Athens yearly sent. Dryden. 4. Young persons, collectively. It is fit to read the best authors to youth first. B. Jonson.