Definitions for youth

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youth youth

Spelling: [yooth]

IPA: /yuθ/

Youth is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in youth (hotuy).

Definitions for youth

noun

1. the condition of being young.
2. the appearance, freshness, vigor, spirit, etc., characteristic of one who is young.
3. the time of being young; early life:
4. the period of life from puberty to the attainment of full growth; adolescence.
5. the first or early period of anything:
6. young persons collectively.
7. a young person, especially a young man or male adolescent.
8. Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).

Origin of youth

before 900; Middle English youthe, Old English geoguth; cognate with Dutch jeugd, German Jugend

Examples for youth

“I am afraid he is past ransom,” said the youth, shaking his head.

While excoriating the IRS, Huckabee brings his readers along on a flashback to his youth.

After raising a cool $2m last night, Will met the President today in DC while Kate visited a Harlem youth project.

But America the Beautiful III: The Sexualization of Our youth is by far the most personal of my documentary films.

And can you expect the youth of Athens to be wiser than their gods?

If it may be avoided, I will not see the whole of your youth consumed in anxious watchings.

His lines were gracefully full, his bearing had still the alertness of youth.

In the book, you say “Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth.”

According to a 2012 UNAIDS report, youth between the ages of 16 to 25 account for 40 percent of all new adult HIV infections.

“It is not well that youth should study over long,” said the old man.