Betekenis (Engels)
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being young.
- (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.
- (countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
- (uncountable) Young persons, collectively.
Teenoorgestelde van
age, dotage, old age, senility, adult, grown-up
Sinonieme
young people
young person
young generation
young boy
early years
young age
Vertalings
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/juːθ/
Etimologie (Engels)
In summary
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.
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