youth
Roget category 127
1. Words expressing abstract relations› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time
#127.
Youth
noun
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.
adjective
young,
youthful,
juvenile,
green,
callow,
budding,
sappy,
puisne,
beardless,
under age,
in one's teens —
in statu pupillari [Lat.] —
younger,
junior —
hebetic†,
unfledged.
phrase
youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm"
[Gray];
youth a the glad season of life"
[Carlyle].
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