| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
Synonyms: |
adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
Antonyms: |
adulthood, maturity |
| Concept: | Youth. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
youth; juvenility, juvenescence; juniority; infancy; babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood; incunabula; minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom., cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage., prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life; heyday of youth, school days; rising generation.
-adjectives
young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari; younger, junior; hebetic, unfledged.
-phrases
"youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm" [Gray]; youth . . . the glad season of life" [Carlyle].
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Antonyms: |
age |
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