youth

(Englisch)

  1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being young.
  2. (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.
  3. (countable) A young person.
  4. (countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
  5. (uncountable) Young persons, collectively.

Gegenteil von
age, dotage, old age, senility, adult, grown-up
Frequenz

B1
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/juːθ/
Etymologie (Englisch)

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.

Related words

Jugendlichkeit

junger Mann

junge Leute

Halbwüchsiger

junge Frau

Knabenalter

jugendliches Alter

Frühling des Lebens

junges Volk

volljähriger Mann

Jugend-

Zeit des Erwachsenwerdens

Jünglingsalter

Jungsein

Kleinheit

Schwächlichkeit

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