Meaning

(uncountable) The quality or state of being young..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being young.
2. (uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.
3. (countable) A young person.
4. (countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
5. (uncountable, used as plural or singular) Young persons, collectively.

Example Sentences

Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.

Her youth and beauty attracted him to her.

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

Make the most of your youth, it will not last forever.

I made many mistakes in my youth, but learned from them all.

I don't find the pose of careless youth charming and engaging any more than you find the pose of careworn age fascinating and eccentric, I should imagine.

Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

There was a group of youths hanging around the parking lot, reading fashion magazines and listening to music.

Word Forms

• youths
• yought
• youthe

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When Should You Use Youth?

Use youth when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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