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| Main Entry: | youngster/youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person before the age of maturity |
| Synonyms: | boy, chick*, cub*, fledgling, girl, junior, juvenile, juvenile delinquent*, kid*, lad, lass, pupil, student, teenager, pup, young person |
| Antonyms: | adult |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, bloom, boyhood, childhood, ignorance, immaturity, innocence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days*, awkward age, girlhood, greenness, inexperience, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | maturity, adulthood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| 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 |
| Main Entry: | adolescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of puberty, preadulthood |
| Synonyms: | boyhood, minority, spring, youth, girlhood, greenness, juvenility, pubescence, teens, youthfulness |
| Notes: | adolescence is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood; puberty is the time of sexual development |
| Antonyms: | infancy, adulthood |
| Main Entry: | adolescent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in puberty, preadulthood |
| Synonyms: | juvenile, minor, stripling, teenager, youngster, youth, sweet sixteen, teen, teenybopper |
| Antonyms: | adult, infant |
| Main Entry: | boy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young man |
| Synonyms: | buck, cadet, chap, child, dude*, fellow, guy, junior, lad, master, punk*, puppy*, runt*, sprout*, squirt*, stripling, youngster, youth, gamin, half-pint, little guy, little shaver, schoolboy, shaver, small fry, sonny, tadpole, whippersnapper |
| Antonyms: | girl |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | child |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very young person |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, babe, baby, brat, cherub, chick, cub, descendant, imp, infant, innocent, issue, juvenile, kid, minor, mite, moppet, newborn, nipper, offspring, progeny, sprout, squirt, stripling, suckling, teenager, toddler, tyke, urchin*, youngster, youth, anklebiter, bairn, bambino, dickens, kiddie, lamb, little angel, little darling, little doll, little one, neonate, nestling, nursling, preteen, pubescent, shaver, small fry, tadpole, teen, teenybopper, tot, whippersnapper, young one |
| Antonyms: | adult |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | childhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of being young |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, babyhood, cradle, immaturity, infancy, minority, nonage, nursery, puberty, youth, juniority, juvenility, pupilage, schooldays, teens, tender age |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
| Main Entry: | freshness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | newness |
| Synonyms: | bloom, brightness, clearness, dew, glow, novelty, originality, shine, sparkle, vigor, youth, callowness, cleanness, dewiness, greenness, inexperience, innovativeness, inventiveness, rawness, viridity |
| Antonyms: | oldness, staleness |
| Main Entry: | juvenile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young person |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, boy, child, girl, infant, kid*, minor, youngster, youth |
| Antonyms: | adult |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | kid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young person |
| Synonyms: | baby, boy, child, daughter, girl, infant, juvenile, lad, lass, son, teenager, youngster, youth, bairn, little one, tot |
| Antonyms: | adult |
| Main Entry: | lad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young man |
| Synonyms: | boy, buddy, child, fellow, guy, juvenile, kid*, runt*, son, stripling, youngster, youth, half-pint, schoolboy |
| Antonyms: | man |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person under legal age of maturity |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, boy, child, girl, infant, junior, juvenile, lad, teenager, youngster, youth, little one, schoolboy, schoolgirl, underage |
| Antonyms: | adult |
| Main Entry: | puberty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young adulthood |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, boyhood, potency, spring*, youth, awkward stage, girlhood, greenness, high-school years, juvenescence, juvenility, preadolescence, pubescence, springtide, springtime*, teenage years, teens, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | teenager |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adolescent |
| Synonyms: | juvenile, minor, stripling, youngster, youth, sweet sixteen, teen, teenybopper |
| Main Entry: | salad days |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | best time of life |
| Synonyms: | bloom, youth, flower of life, heyday of youth, prime of life, school days, springtime of life, tender age, younger days |
| Main Entry: | school age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the time when one attends compulsory school |
| Synonyms: | youth, early years, juvenescence, juvenility, younger days |
| Main Entry: | youngster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | child |
| Synonyms: | boy, chick, cub, fledgling, girl, junior, juvenile, juvenile delinquent, kid, lad, lass, moppet, punk, pupil, puppy, sapling, squirt, student, teenager, urchin, young adult, youth, little guy, little kid, pup, shaver, small fry, snotnose kid, sonny, teenybopper, young person |
| Antonyms: | elder |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of animate existence |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, boyhood, childhood, dotage, infancy, life, lifetime, majority, maturity, middle age, milestone, old age, senility, seniority, wear and tear*, youth, adulthood, elderliness, girlhood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | immaturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | childhood |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, infancy, youth, youthfulness |
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