youth
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
youth/juːθ/
▶noun (pl. youths)
- 1 the period between childhood and adult age.
■ the qualities of vigour, freshness, immaturity, etc. associated with being young.
- 2 [treated as sing. or pl.] young people.
■ a young man.
'youth' also found in these Oxford entries:
Adonis
- adultescent
- bootboy
- boy
- casual
- Childe
- corner boy
- flush
- galloglass
- gild
- grebo
- hebephrenia
- herbert
- hobbledehoy
- hoody
- hostelling
- hyacinth
- infantry
- jeunesse dorée
- Jugendstil
- juvenescence
- knight
- Komsomol
- middle youth
- narcissism
- nonage
- phoenix
- rejuvenescence
- rude boy
- street
- sublime
- swain
- tawdry
- uhlan
- Voortrekker
- YHA
- yippie
- yob
- youth club
- youth hostel
- YTS
