Meaning

  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.

Opposite of
age, dotage, old age, senility, adult, grown-up
Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/juːθ/
Etymology

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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