youth
Noun:
- The quality or state of being young: The period of life when one is young, especially the time between childhood and adulthood.
- The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person: The energy, vigor, and appearance associated with being young.
- An early stage of development: The beginning or early period in the existence or development of something.
- Young people considered as a group: The collective body of young individuals in a society.
Countable Noun:
- A young person: A male or female individual in the period between childhood and adulthood.
Noun (Uncountable):
- She retained her youth and energy well into her fifties.
- In his youth, he traveled the world.
- The project is still in its youth and has great potential.
- The nation's youth are its future.
Noun (Countable):
- He was a talented youth from a small town.
- A group of youths were playing football in the park.
"Fountain of youth": A mythical spring that restores youth to anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters; used metaphorically for anything that makes one feel or look young again.
- Many creams claim to be a fountain of youth for the skin.
"Wasted youth": Refers to a period of one's young life that was not used productively or was misspent.
- He regretted his wasted youth spent in idleness.
Youthful (adj): Having the qualities typical of young people, such as energy, vigor, or appearance.
- She has a youthful spirit.
Youthfulness (n): The state or quality of being youthful.
- Her youthfulness is infectious.
- Adolescence: The period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult.
- Juvenescence: The state of being youthful or the process of growing young.
- Youngsters: Young people, especially children or adolescents.
Youth culture: The shared norms, values, practices, and music of young people.
- The 1960s were defined by a vibrant youth culture.
Youth movement: A political or social initiative led by or focused on young people.
- The climate strikes are a powerful global youth movement.
"Youth is wasted on the young": A saying expressing that young people often do not fully appreciate the advantages of being young.
- Looking back, I understand the saying that youth is wasted on the young.
"In the flush of youth": At the peak of one's youth, characterized by energy and enthusiasm.
- In the flush of youth, he believed he could achieve anything.
- the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
- an early period of development
- during the youth of the project
- early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced
- the time of life between childhood and maturity
- young people collectively
- rock music appeals to the young
- youth everywhere rises in revolt
- a young person (especially a young man or boy)