youth
youth is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood. He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home. Shak. Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly. Rambler.
- 2.A young person; especially, a young man. Seven youths from Athens yearly sent. Dryden.
- 3.Young persons, collectively. It is fit to read the best authors to youth first. B. Jonson.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adolescence
- afresh
- age
- ago
- and
- anew
- animal
- babyhood
- beardless
- beau
- bene
- blade
- bloom
- boar
- boy
- boyhood
- brand-new
- buck
- budding
- bull
- bullock
- callow
- capon
- chap
- childhood
- cock
- cradle
- daisy
- date
- day
- dictum
- dog
- drake
- elf
- entire
- est
- evergreen
- fashion
- fashionable
- fellow
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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