YOUTH

[noun] - the period of your life when you are young, the state of being young, or a young person or peopleIt seems a shame to spend the whole of your youth shut away studying. [U]With parents that strict I don't imagine she ever really had a youth. [C]I was a fairly good football player in my youth. [U]I left my sister counting her grey hairs and mourning her lost youth. [U]The first volume is the author's account of his misspent youth in the bars of Dublin. [U]We live in a society that worships youth (= the state of being young). [U]He looks like a man who's found the secret to eternal youth (= being young). [U]You may not have played tennis as often as him but at least you've got youth on your side (= you are young). [U]A youth is a boy or a young man.She brought home another spotty youth last week. [C]Gangs of youths were throwing stones and bottles at the police. [C]For these offences he received a nine-month youth custody sentence.(literary) In the film he is portrayed very much as a callow youth (= a young person lacking experience). [C]Youth can also mean can mean young people, both male and female, considered as a group.Oh, the arrogance of youth!The youth of today - they've got no manners!They were the first rock band to really capture the imagination of the nation's disaffected youth.Like most capital cities in Europe it has a thriving youth culture.This area has the second highest youth unemployment rate in England.A youth club is a place that older children can go to in order to meet other children, play sports and do other social activities.Rosie is off to a disco at the local youth club tonight.A youth hostel is a place where people, esp. young people, can stay cheaply for short periods when they are travelling.When we went on our cycling tour, we stayed mainly in youth hostels.I used to go youth-hostelling when I was a student.