youth
noun
1 youth
A young person (especially a young man or boy).
synonyms: spring chicken, young person, younker.
Roget 129:
infant,
babe,
baby,
babe in arms;
nurseling,
suckling,
yearling,
weanling;
papoose,
bambino;
kid;
vagitus.
child,
bairn [Scot.],
little one,
brat,
chit,
pickaninny,
urchin;
bantling,
bratling†;
elf.
youth,
boy,
lad,
stripling,
youngster,
youngun,
younker†,
callant†,
whipster†,
whippersnapper,
whiffet [U.S.],
schoolboy,
hobbledehoy,
hopeful,
cadet,
minor,
master.
scion;
sap,
seedling;
tendril,
olive branch,
nestling,
chicken,
larva,
chrysalis,
tadpole,
whelp,
cub,
pullet,
fry,
callow;
codlin, codling;
foetus,
calf,
colt,
pup,
foal,
kitten;
lamb,
lambkin†;
aurelia†,
caterpillar,
cocoon,
nymph,
nympha†,
orphan,
pupa,
staddle†.
girl;
lass,
lassie;
wench,
miss,
damsel,
demoiselle;
maid,
maiden;
virgin;
hoyden.
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Roget 160:
weakness
etc.
adj.;
debility,
atony†,
relaxation,
languor,
enervation;
impotence
etc.
158;
infirmity;
effeminacy,
feminality†;
fragility,
flaccidity;
inactivity
etc.
683.
anaemia,
bloodlessness,
deficiency of blood,
poverty of blood.
declension of strength,
loss of strength,
failure of strength;
delicacy,
invalidation,
decrepitude,
asthenia†,
adynamy†,
cachexy†,
cachexia [Med.],
sprain,
strain.
reed,
thread,
rope of sand,
house of cards.
softling†,
weakling;
infant
etc.
129;
youth
etc.
127.
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Roget 123:
newness
etc.
adj.;
novelty,
recency;
immaturity;
youth
etc.
127;
gloss of novelty.
innovation;
renovation
etc.
(restoration)
660.
modernism;
mushroom,
parvenu;
latest fashion.
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Dutch: jongere
2 youth
Young people collectively:
— Youth everywhere rises in revolt.
synonym: young.
Dutch: jongelieden, jongelui
Polish: młódź, młodzi, młodzież
3 youth
The time of life between childhood and maturity.
4 youth
Early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced.
Dutch: jeugd, jongere
5 youth
An early period of development:
— During the youth of the project.
synonym: early days.
6 youth
The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person.
synonyms: juvenility, youthfulness.
Roget 127:
youth;
juvenility,
juvenescence†;
juniority†;
infancy;
babyhood,
childhood,
boyhood,
girlhood,
youthhood†;
incunabula;
minority,
nonage,
teens,
tender age,
bloom.
cradle,
nursery,
leading strings,
pupilage,
puberty,
pucelage†.
prime of life,
flower of life,
springtide of life†,
seedtime of life,
golden season of life;
heyday of youth,
school days;
rising generation.
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Dutch: jeugdigheid
Polish: młodość
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