youth

Meaning

The quality or state of being young.
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.
A young person.
A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
Young persons, collectively.

lad

young man

young people

young person

young generation

young boy

early years

young age

springtime of life

teenage boy

teen-ager

tender age

unmarried man

younger generation

young male

one’s younger days

adolescents

teen age

age of puberty

adolescent boy

not childish

young buck

young population

tender years

tender days

juvenesence

young people's

rural youth

young fellow

young woman

early youth

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/juːθ/

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. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Juugd, West Frisian jeugd, Dutch jeugd, German Low German Jöögd, German Jugend.