n. 25B6; noun
he had been a keen sportsman in his youth : EARLY YEARS, young days, teens, teenage years, adolescence, boyhood, girlhood, childhood; minority; formal juvenescence.
she had kept her youth and beauty : YOUTHFULNESS, freshness, bloom, vigour, energy.
local youths : YOUNG MAN, boy, juvenile, teenager, adolescent, junior, minor; informal lad, kid.
the youth of the nation : YOUNG PEOPLE, young, younger generation, next generation; informal kids.
adulthood, old age.