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youth (iou)



youth noun. .

The fact or state of being young; youngness. Also, youthful freshness, vigour, appearance, etc. OE.
Conan Doyle His antagonist was tiring...His own youth and condition were beginning to tell. E. Waugh Having for many years..feigned youth, he now aspired to the honours of age. personified: A. Wilson He was..always on youth's side against the absurdities of middle age.
b. fig. Novelty, recentness. rare. L16.
Shakespeare Merchant of Venice If that the youth of my new int'rest here Have power to bid you welcome.
The time when one is young; spec. the period between childhood and full adulthood. OE.
D. L. Cohn Many American men dislike women because they were dominated by them throughout childhood and early youth.
b. fig. An early stage in the existence of a thing. E17.
Church Times Lutheranism..covers a smaller area to-day than it did in its early youth.
Young people collectively; the young. OE.
T. R. Fyvel Russian youth has..not remained untouched by the unrest of our age. Guardian Weekly Youth who need apprenticeship opportunities.
A young person; esp. a young man between boyhood and mature age. ME.
I. Compton-Burnett Grant Edgeworth was a spare, dark youth of twenty-five. M. M. Kaye Had her..bridegroom been a boy of her own age, or even a youth in his teens.
b. A member of certain societies of bellringers. Usu. in pl. obsolete exc. Hist. M17.
Comb.: Youth Aliyah : providing cheap accommodation for (orig. young) people, esp. on hiking or cycling holidays; youth-hostel verb intrans. stay at youth hostels (chiefly as youth-hostelling verbal noun); youth hosteller a person who stays at youth hostels; youth leader a person having charge of young people in any youth organization; Youth Opportunities Programme a Government-sponsored service introduced in Britain in 1978 to provide temporary work experience for unemployed young people; Youth Training Scheme a Government-sponsored scheme introduced in Britain in 1983 to replace the Youth Opportunities Programme and offering job experience and training for unemployed school-leavers.
youthless adjective lacking youth or youthful characteristics E20.