Definitions for youths

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Spelling: [yooth]
IPA: /yuθ/

Youths is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in youths (hostuy).

Definitions for youths

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 youths

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

Examples for youths

He visited their families in East L.A., taking videos of the youths.

Most of them were Shopton youths, but some, evidently, were strangers in town.

In Australia, a group of Muslim youths were convicted of gang raping a series of teenagers.

The two youths jumped with all their strength to reach the departing galley.

One of these youths, fancying himself a mimic, had imitated the Moslems.

Homer pictures the youths and the maidens pressing the vines together.

The youths, gripping tightly their rifles and muskets, waited.

Hardline clerics and youths suspect moderates of collaborating with the security forces.

An MSF centre elsewhere in Guinea was attacked in April by youths saying the charity brought Ebola into their country.

The former provides entrepreneurial training and educational programs for youths from low-income urban areas around the world.

Word Value for youths
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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