youth

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youth - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Youth \Youth\ ([=u]th), n.; pl. Youths ([=u]ths; 264) or
     collectively Youth. [OE. youthe, youh[thorn]e,
     [yogh]uhe[eth]e, [yogh]uwe[eth]e, [yogh]eo[yogh]e[eth]e, AS.
     geogu[eth], geogo[eth]; akin to OS. jugu[eth], D. jeugd, OHG.
     jugund, G. jugend, Goth. junda. [root]281. See Young.]
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     1. The quality or state of being young; youthfulness;
        juvenility. "In my flower of youth." --Milton.
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              Such as in his face
              Youth smiled celestial.               --Milton.
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     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.
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              He wondered that your lordship
              Would suffer him to spend his youth at home. --Shak.
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              Those who pass their youth in vice are justly
              condemned to spend their age in folly. --Rambler.
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     3. A young person; especially, a young man.
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              Seven youths from Athens yearly sent. --Dryden.
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     4. Young persons, collectively.
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              It is fit to read the best authors to youth first.
                                                    --B. Jonson.
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youth - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  youth
      n 1: a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: young person
           , youth, younker, spring chicken]
      2: young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young";
         "youth everywhere rises in revolt" [syn: young, youth]
         [ant: aged, elderly]
      3: the time of life between childhood and maturity
      4: early maturity; the state of being young or immature or
         inexperienced
      5: an early period of development; "during the youth of the
         project" [syn: youth, early days]
      6: the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
         [syn: youth, youthfulness, juvenility]

youth - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  118 Moby Thesaurus words for "youth":
     adolescence, adolescent, adolescents, awkward age, baby, babyhood,
     beginnings, birth, boy, boyhood, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy,
     callowness, chick, child, childhood, childkind, children, chit,
     colt, cradle, cub, damsel, demoiselle, dewiness, fellow, fledgling,
     freshman year, genesis, girl, girlhood, greenness, hobbledehoy,
     hopeful, immaturity, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency,
     incunabula, inexperience, infancy, infant, junior, juvenal,
     juvenile, juveniles, juvenility, kid, kids, lad, laddie, lass,
     lassie, little kids, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, manchild, master,
     minor, minority, moppet, muchacho, nascence, nascency, nativity,
     new generation, origin, origination, parturition, pregnancy, prime,
     puberty, pubescence, pubescent, pup, puppy, rising generation,
     salad days, sapling, schoolboy, schoolgirl, slip, small fry, sonny,
     sonny boy, sprig, spring, springtide, springtime, stripling, tad,
     teen, teenager, teener, teenybopper, tots, unripeness, whelp,
     whippersnapper, young, young blood, young fry, young hopeful,
     young man, young people, young person, younger, youngest,
     youngling, youngster, youngsters, youthfulness, youthhood