youth

== English == === Alternative forms === yought, youthe (both obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English youthe, youghte, ȝouþe, from Old English ġeoguþ (“the state of being young; youth”), from Proto-West Germanic *juwunþa, from Proto-Germanic *jugunþō, *jugunþiz (“youth”), corresponding to young +‎ -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Juugd, West Frisian jeugd, Dutch jeugd, German Low German Jöögd, German Jugend. === Pronunciation === enPR: jo͞oth, Rhymes: -uːθ IPA(key): /juːθ/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /juθ/ (General American) IPA(key): /jʉwθ/ (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /jʉːθ/ (Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /jʉθ/ (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /jut̪ʰ/ (South Asia) enPR: jo͝oth, Rhymes: -ʊθ IPA(key): /jʊt̪ʰ/ (South Asia) enPR: jŭth, Rhymes: -ʌθ by analogy with young IPA(key): /jɐt̪ʰ/ (South Asia) === Noun === youth (countable and uncountable, plural youths) (uncountable) The quality or state of being young. 1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins: Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age. Synonyms: juvenility, youngness, (archaic) youngth, youthfulness Antonyms: age, dotage, old age, senility (uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood. (countable) A young person. Synonyms: adolescent, child, kid, lad, teen, teenager, youngster Antonyms: adult, grown-up (countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult. Synonyms: boy, young man (uncountable, used as plural or singular) Young persons, collectively. Synonyms: adolescents, kids, teenagers, teens, young people, youngsters ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== young ==== Translations ==== === References === “youth”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. youth in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “youth”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Further reading === youth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia youth on Wikiquote.Wikiquote === Anagrams === Tuohy == Middle English == === Noun === youth (Late Middle English) alternative form of youthe