(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Someone’s ~ is the period of their life during which they are a child, before they are a fully mature adult.
In my ~ my ambition had been to be an inventor.
...the comic books of my ~.
N-UNCOUNT: usu poss N
2.
Youth is the quality or state of being young.
Gregory was still enchanted with Shannon’s ~ and joy and beauty...
The team is now a good mixture of experience and ~.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
Journalists often refer to young men as ~s, especially when they are reporting that the young men have caused trouble.
...gangs of ~s who broke windows and looted shops...
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4.
The ~ are young people considered as a group.
He represents the opinions of the ~ of today...
N-PLURAL: usu with poss