Definition

1. Noun:
   • Youth; a young person: Literally "green head," this poetic and literary term directly refers to a young individual, emphasizing their youthful age and vitality. It describes the period of being young or the young person themselves.
   • Youthfulness: The state or quality of being young, fresh, and full of life.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Đầu xanh tuổi trẻ thường nhiều hoài bão. (Youth is often full of aspirations.)
  • Tội nghiệp cho những đầu xanh đó, họ đã hy sinh vì đất nước. (Pity those young souls; they sacrificed for the country.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is almost exclusively used in formal, literary, or rhetorical contexts. It carries a connotation of innocence, freshness, and sometimes inexperience associated with young age.
• It can be used metaphorically to represent new ideas, movements, or energy.

Variants and Related Words

• Tuổi xanh (n): green age; youth. A closely related synonym.
  • Anh ấy đã cống hiến tuổi xanh cho khoa học. (He devoted his youth to science.)
• Tuổi trẻ (n): youth. A more common and direct term.
  • Tuổi trẻ là mùa xuân của xã hội. (Youth is the spring of society.)

Synonyms

• Youth: the period between childhood and adult age.
• Youngster: a young person.
• Adolescent: a young person in the process of developing from a child into an adult.

Related Idioms

• Đầu xanh còn, tóc bạc chưa: Literally "the green head remains, the white hair has not yet come"; meaning one is still very young.
  • Cậu ấy đầu xanh còn, tóc bạc chưa, lo gì chuyện tương lai xa. (He is still very young; why worry about the distant future?)

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