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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“You are old,” said the youth, “as I mentioned before,
“In my youth,” said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, “I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment—one shilling the box— Allow me to sell you a couple?”
“You are old,” said the youth, “and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak— Pray, how did you manage to do it?”
“In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law,
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