Youth
[juːθ] or [jʊθ]
Definition
(noun.) the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person.
(noun.) early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced.
(noun.) the time of life between childhood and maturity.
(noun.) an early period of development; 'during the youth of the project'.
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Definition
(pl. ) of Youth
(n.) The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.
(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.
(n.) A young person; especially, a young man.
(n.) Young persons, collectively.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Juvenility, adolescence, juniority, minority, teens, bloom, nonage, youthfulness, prime of life, flower of life.[2]. Boy, stripling, school-boy, YOUNGSTER, lad.[3]. Young men, young women, young persons, the rising generation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Youngster, young_person, boy, lad, minority, adolescence, juvenility,[See YOUTHFUL]
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Definition
n. state of being young: early life: a young person: young persons taken together: (Shak.) recentness freshness.—adj. Youth′ful pertaining to youth or early life: young: suitable to youth: fresh: buoyant vigorous.—adv. Youth′fully.—ns. Youth′fulness; Youth′head Youth′hood (obs.) youth.—adjs. Youth′ly (Spens.) young youthful; Youth′some youthful; Youth′y young.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The Period of Possibility when Archimedes finds a fulcrum Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
The dynamo that makes the world go round; a product of its own generation, with its wires carrying Power into the high places of Earth and with its currents of Thought short-circuited only by bigoted Old Age.
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Examples
- Such is the process by which the youth passes from the necessary pleasures to the unnecessary. Plato. The Republic.
- I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In childhood and youth, with their relative freedom from economic stress, this fact is naked and unconcealed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A serious occurrence that might have resulted in accident drove him soon after from Canada, although the youth could hardly be held to blame for it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Of all changes, he said, there is none so speedy or so sure as the conversion of the ambitious youth into the avaricious one. Plato. The Republic.
- And the avaricious, I said, is the oligarchical youth? Plato. The Republic.
- In 1749 he drew up proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania, which led, two years later, to the esta blishment of the first American Academy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She is captive unto those men of Belial, and they will wreak their cruelty upon her, sparing neither for her youth nor her comely favour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In my youth young men didn't desert pretty women unless they were made to! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He made a little gesture as though he kissed the hem of an imaginary garment worn by the noble youth before him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I have health, wealth, and youth; but I feel the stings of the rod all the same. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He saw Heloise, and was captivated by her blooming youth, her beauty, and her charming disposition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But this one living grain in him matched the perfect youth in her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- A sort of renewed youth glowed in his eye and colour, and an invigorated hope and settled purpose sustained his bearing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Since the supply is small, induce to begin this study youths of about eig hteen years of age who are already acquainted with the sciences required in a general education. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Youths are brought to him to be educated, and the whole character of his life has changed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- On the second trip they were accompanied by ten or fifteen other women and youths, who, it seemed, formed the retinues of the two chieftains. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- In a short time the two youths had become inseparable friends, experimenting together, and taking walks to the mines and quarries in the neighborhood of Penzance in search of minerals for study. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- At the sixth round, there were almost as many fellows shouting out, Go it, Figs, as there were youths exclaiming, Go it, Cuff. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Youths, nobles of the land, performed for the sake of mother or sister, the services of menials with amiable cheerfulness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The youths of the little community had to remember that. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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