Youthman

Quick meaning: Youthman is a noun meaning (Jamaica, nonstandard) A young man; youth.

Meaning

(Jamaica, nonstandard) A young man; youth.

More Meanings

1. (Caribbean) A young musician from the ghetto who agitates for social change.
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).

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.

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.

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.

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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include youngman, yellowman, young, youngs, yeoman, younger.

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