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YOUTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
Synonyms:
juvenility; youth; youthfulness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("youth" is a kind of...):
youngness (the opposite of oldness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Young people collectively
Example:
youth everywhere rises in revolt
Synonyms:
young; youth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("youth" is a kind of...):
age bracket; age group; cohort (a group of people having approximately the same age)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A young person (especially a young man or boy)
Synonyms:
spring chicken; young person; younker; youth
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("youth" is a kind of...):
juvenile; juvenile person (a young person, not fully developed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "youth"):
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)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("youth" is a kind of...):
matureness; maturity (state of being mature; full development)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The time of life between childhood and maturity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("youth" is a kind of...):
time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)
Meronyms (parts of "youth"):
adolescence (the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood)
bloom; bloom of youth; salad days (the best time of youth)
Sense 6
Meaning:
An early period of development
Example:
during the youth of the project
Synonyms:
early days; youth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("youth" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Context examples:
He sees nothing attractive in me; not even youth—only a few useful mental points.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It does this best during youth.
(Physical Activity Brings Lasting Bone Benefits, NIH, US)
The last-born has as good a right to the pleasures of youth as the first.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Recent studies have found increased arterial stiffness in youth with risk factors such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol.
(Too Much Salt? Unhealthy Blood Vessels Changes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Migraines are a common medical condition among youth and adults, affecting 12 percent of people ages 12 and older.
(Innovative Treatment Offers Relief to Children with Frequent Migraine Headaches, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The oath left my lips in my excitement—the first, I do believe, in my life, unless “trouble it,” an expletive of my youth, be accounted an oath.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The eruptions on Io are likely similar to those that shaped the surfaces of inner solar system planets such as Earth and Venus in their youth.
(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)
Laurie was growing more serious, strong, and firm, and both were learning that beauty, youth, good fortune, even love itself, cannot keep care and pain, loss and sorrow, from the most blessed for ...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Different flavors of liquids are available, including many that appeal to youth, such as fruit, chocolate and candy.
(Using Electronic Cigarettes Can Damage DNA, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Formation is usually related to sun exposure during youth, and the lesions do not typically progress to malignancy.
(Lentigo, NCI Thesaurus)
