youth
/juθ/ noun A2- The quality or state of being young. · Her youth and beauty attracted him to her.
- 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. · Make the most of your youth, it will not last forever.· I made many mistakes in my youth, but learned from them all.
- A young person. · There was a group of youths hanging around the parking lot, reading fashion magazines and listening to music.
- A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
- Young persons, collectively.
Plural youths
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The papers which this wretched youth had in his pocket were the plans of the Bruce-Partington submarine.”
A HOUND, who in the days of his youth and strength had never yielded to any beast of the forest, encountered in his old age a boar in the chase.
“Yes, he is young, and youth is invariably self-confident.
But Anne, with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth’s own optimism.
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