YOUTH


Meaning of YOUTH in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ju:θ ]

( youths /ju:ðz/ )

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

Someone’s youth is the period of their life during which they are a child, before they are a fully mature adult.

In my youth my ambition had been to be an inventor.

...the comic books of my youth.

N-UNCOUNT : usu poss N

2.

Youth is the quality or state of being young.

Gregory was still enchanted with Shannon’s youth and joy and beauty...

The team is now a good mixture of experience and youth.

N-UNCOUNT

3.

Journalists often refer to young men as youths , especially when they are reporting that the young men have caused trouble.

...gangs of youths who broke windows and looted shops...

N-COUNT

4.

The youth are young people considered as a group.

He represents the opinions of the youth of today...

N-PLURAL : usu with poss

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне.