Meaning

(Jamaica, nonstandard) A young man; youth..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Jamaica, nonstandard) A young man; youth.
2. (West Africa) A man who has reached the age of adulthood but has not attained an adult social status (living independently with a stable livelihood, marriage, and family).
3. (Caribbean) A young musician from the ghetto who agitates for social change.

Example Sentences

His first campaign in Italy made the name of Napoleon known to all Europe; and there the youthman ended, and the warrior and statesman began.

The hypnotic movements of the dancing youthmen, and the young women who were now joining them, were to her like the strong flames of a nomadic band's camp fire, and that warmed her.

Students and youths in schools and colleges of Calcutta observed that day with mourning: they attended their institutions bare footed, protested with fasting and wore mourning badges. The schools were closed for two or three days. His photographs had an immense sale, By and by, the youthmen began to wear Dhoties with Khudiram Bose's name ...

Now when the youthman reach out pon the street some dangerous people the youthman meets. The conman a try to trick the youthman The informer what a wicked performer.

Noting 'mi falla rude boy fashion, take some advice fram di reporter man' he assumes the role of a critic (probably one of those people like the present writer, desperately attempting to do the impossible - explaining a subculture): 'one ting mi learn going inna Brixton certain youthman dem no ave ambition but before dem get a job an get a occupation - wha dey do? - en up inna corner dem a watch Batman - an den?

I feel sorry for the youthman today/ The system is bad for the youthman today/ Every day and every night they suffer/ The youthman want to sleep but no place/ The youthman want to eat but no food/ The youthman want good dress but no good dress/ The youthman want to buy but no money/ The youthman want to work If no work, how do you expect him to eat?

Using the case of male urban youth in Monrovia, Utas describes the rise of Liberia's youthmen: “Due to economic crisis and increasing dependence on the central state in the 1980s an ever-growing number of young people in urban and semi-urban environments were excluded even from the possibilities of becoming adults.

Rallies and marches were organized to awaken "social consciousness," and productivity poems, similar to those written in Eastern Europe in the early 1950s, carried the same message: So youthman, sister woman Co-operate, organize, unite, be wise Then we go cleanup this land!

Word Forms

• youthmen
• youthman

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