youth : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: youth	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
youth n a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: {young person}, youth, younker, spring chicken] young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt" Synonym(s): young, youth Antonym(s): aged, elderly the time of life between childhood and maturity early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced an early period of development; "during the youth of the project" Synonym(s): youth, early days the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person Synonym(s): youth, youthfulness, juvenility
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Youth \Youth\ ([umac]th), n.; pl. {Youths} ([umac]ths; 264) or collectively {Youth}. [OE. youthe, youh[thorn]e, [f4]uhe[eb]e, [f4]uwe[eb]e, [f4]eo[f4]e[eb]e, AS. geogu[eb], geogo[eb]; akin to OS. jug[eb], D. jeugd, OHG. jugund, G. jugend, Goth. junda. [fb]281. See {Young}.] 1. The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. [bd]In my flower of youth.[b8] --Milton. Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial. --Milton. 2. The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood. He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home. --Shak. Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly. --Rambler. 3. A young person; especially, a young man. Seven youths from Athens yearly sent. --Dryden. 4. Young persons, collectively. It is fit to read the best authors to youth first. --B. Jonson.