youth
(Inglés)
- (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.
Opuesto a
age, dotage, old age, senility, adult, grown-up
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/juːθ/
Etimología (Inglés)
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
young people
young person
young generation
young boy
early years
young age
młodzież
młodość
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