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noun, plural youths

[yooths, yoothz] , (collectively) youth.

the condition of being young.

the appearance, freshness, vigor, spirit, etc., characteristic of one who is young.

the time of being young; early life: His youth was spent on the farm.

the period of life from puberty to the attainment of full growth; adolescence.

the first or early period of anything: The business, even in its youth, showed great potential.

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young persons collectively.

a young person, especially a young man or male adolescent.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English youthe, Old English geoguth; cognate with Dutch jeugd, German Jugend

Related forms

youth·less, adjective

Synonyms
3. minority, immaturity. 7. youngster, teenager, adolescent, stripling, lad, boy.

Antonyms
1, 3. maturity.

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Example Sentences

IN the world of the contemporary symphony orchestra, youth is not so much a stage of life as it is a battle cry.

Then consider those commentators who celebrate the creative brilliance of digitally adept youth.

The temptation to buy off trouble-more money on police spending, youth employment programmes-will be high.

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IN the world of the contemporary symphony orchestra, youth is not so much a stage of life as it is a battle cry.

Then consider those commentators who celebrate the creative brilliance of digitally adept youth.

The temptation to buy off trouble-more money on police spending, youth employment programmes-will be high.

Internationally, hip-hop has emerged as the world's favorite youth culture.

Youth hockey players have started to wear the same type of helmet sensors as some football teams.

It does not seem to me worth it to waste their youth and talent in such a thankless place.

Larger-growing species may end up as shrubs or trees depending on how they are treated in youth.

Often adults think that children and youth don't have the capacity to express themselves or make good decisions.

The cost of youth unemployment is not only financial, but also emotional.

Though in youth hockey that rule applies only after they have been tested on certain essential skills.

Create a million and one innovations for rural youth.

Income inequality, high youth unemployment, and autocratic rule are often the key ingredients that fuel unrest.

The negative effects of video games generally manifest themselves because they are already there in a youth.

As a youth he had singing, piano and clarinet lessons.

English ivy runs and roots with all the reckless abandon of youth.

McKinney said that the youth forum audience felt that they could relate to the issues better.

One group that has been particularly hard hit by the recession is youth.

Each summer the university pays some of its students to work as counselors in church-run youth camps.

Nowhere is there a greater gulf between youth culture and corporate culture.

Several years ago a youth counselor told me about the dilemma he faced when dealing with violent young men.

School cafeterias from my youth are first remembered by their artifacts.

Even drastic body-weight disparities in youth programs could be causing the spike in the number of reported cases.

Then their parents were asked to recall how they would have responded to the same questions in their youth.

Her son, not enrolled in the communist youth movement, could not go to university.

Williams is well-known for his cocaine-infused youth.

The report also notes important cultural distinctions between the youth of today and the youth of yesteryear.

In all of these countries youth bulges combined with dictatorship forces the youth to fight their surpressors.

One hallmark of aging is the inability to heal as fast or maintain tissues and organs as well as in youth.

History is littered with failed wonder drugs, elixirs of youth and miracle cures.

Street signed a bill toughening a city curfew as a way of trying to reduce youth violence.

The youth movement takes pride in having no leaders, but it thereby finds itself without a voice at the negotiating table.

Mars was an active and violent place during the first billion or so years of its youth.

Investing in the health and education of the world's youth could help reduce population impacts.

He hopes to turn the youth music-finding site into a connection point for radio stations and their teenaged target audience.

Youth courts do more than simply divert teenagers from juvenile justice: they actively create pro-social behavior.

Another option is to become a public librarian specializing in children's and youth services.

He collects coins and plays violin in a youth symphony orchestra.

It's been hard to find our youth pulling away from what the past has taught us and using it to help us learn today.

It wasn't the only time in his youth de'Silva would defy expectations in favor of an automobile.

In the absence of a foreign security threat, a reader says, creating an army is not an answer to high youth unemployment.

In addition, students are introduced to the importance of observation and data collection through a youth media project.

The coalition can even coordinate work among youth action groups in different countries.

The two operational movie theaters of my youth have been replaced by a new cinema complex near the local waterfront.

It's not surprising that violent youth crime is rising rapidly as a consequence.

At its core, the flash-mob problem is the result of youth having little to do and being without structure.

But today's high-spending youth will not be on the gravy train forever.

Some accounts have suggested a large elaborate burial near the sacred mountains of his youth.

He holds workshops in prisons and among youth living in poverty.

Preventing the state's youth from engaging in an activity as traditional as.

It's a signature of youth to want to make a place for oneself by destroying the old guard.

He notes that children as young as six ape the ways of well-armed youth gangs.

Barna cites a need to inspire new generations of urban youth with the wonders of nature.

Among other inventive endeavors, as a youth he built a telegraph from his house to a friend's out of fencing wire.

In your essay, you describe a youth that is more concerned with popular culture than the culture of your tribe.

To be sure, in several cases, the youth are more accepting of open gay service by clear margins.

And certainly, today's youth need to have a better handle on geography.

There are ancient writings about how the youth are self centered and less community centered.

He embraced subsequent youth subcultures, from the hippies to the punks.

But youth workers insist that their dolls can make a powerful impression.

Like youth that will disrespectfully use loud music to stake-out territory.

Girls and boys are brought together at youth camps, in an effort to encourage inter-Parsee marriage.

Today's nostalgia is a thin, flavorless gruel compared to the hearty and robust nostalgia of my youth.

Kremlin-sponsored youth thugs had called him a traitor and pledged to punish him.

It explains why even those politicians who puffed at a joint or two in their youth hesitate to put the case for legalising drugs.

Sweden's youth unemployment runs at a shocking rate of one in four.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 86,600; 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).

Spanish, Isla de la Juventud.

Formerly, Isle of Pines.

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youth (juːθ)

—n , pl youths
1.	the quality or condition of being young, immature, or inexperienced: his youth told against him in the contest
2.	the period between childhood and maturity, esp adolescence and early adulthood
3.	the freshness, vigour, or vitality characteristic of young people: youth shone out from her face
4.	any period of early development: the project was in its youth
5.	a young person, esp a young man or boy
6.	young people collectively: youth everywhere is rising in revolt

[Old English geogoth; related to Old Frisian jogethe, Old High German iugund, Gothic junda, Latin juventus]

'youthless

—*adj*

Youth (juːθ)

—n
	Isle of Youth Former name: Isle of Pines, Spanish name: Isla de la Juventud an island in the NW Caribbean, south of Cuba: administratively part of Cuba from 1925. Chief town: Nueva Gerona. Pop: 80 600 (2002 est). Area: 3061 sq km (1182 sq miles)

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Word Origin & History

youth

O.E. geoguð "youth," related to geong "young," from W.Gmc. *jugunthiz, altered from P.Gmc. *juwunthiz (cf. O.S. juguth, O.Fris. jogethe, M.Du. joghet, Du. jeugd, O.H.G. jugund, Ger. Jugend, Goth. junda "youth;" see young) by influence of its contrast, *dugunthiz "ability"

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(source of O.E. duguð). In M.E., the medial -g- became a yogh, which then disappeared. Youthful first attested 1561.

"They said that age was truth, and that the young
Marred with wild hopes the peace of slavery"
[Shelley]

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"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more—the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort—to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires—and expires, too soon, too soon—before life itself."

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