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noun

Youth n. (pl. youths or collectively youth)

The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. "In my flower of youth." "Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial."

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." "Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly."

A young person; especially, a young man. "Seven youths from Athens yearly sent."

Young persons, collectively. "It is fit to read the best authors to youth first."

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Etymology of 'Youth'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Youth" Quotes from Famous Books

... the record of this vision and sacrifice is headed, "Como l'angelo de Dio aparse anchora a Joachim." It then proceeds thus: "At this very moment of the day" (when the angel appeared to Anna), "there appeared a most beautiful youth (unno belitissimo zovene) among the mountains there, where Joachim was, and said to Joachim, 'Wherefore dost thou not return to thy wife?' And Joachim answered, 'These twenty years God has given me no fruit ...

— Giotto and his works in Padua • John Ruskin

... after him, but I did the best I knew how. Because of the eleven years' difference in our ages I've shut my eyes to much I should have seen, and refused to hear what I should have listened to, perhaps, but I was afraid of being too severe, too lacking in sympathy with his youth, with the differences in our natures, and, chiefly, because I knew he was largely the product of his rearing. He was only fourteen when father died, and to the day of her death mother allowed no one ...

— People Like That • Kate Langley Bosher

... for expressing it, than with any fixed idea of doing a kindness. He had counted also on despising the son as he had despised the father; but here he found himself foiled. George had taken all that he had given, as any youth would take what an uncle gave; but he had never asked for more: he had done as well as it was possible for him to do in that line of education which had been tendered to him; and now, though he would ...

— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

... will but her old father's; besides, you are a likely youth, of honest principles and high birth; no, she never had any other will than mine, and in my proudest days I could not have wished a mair eligible espousal for her than the nephew of my excellent old friend, Sir Everard.—But I hope, ...

— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott

... be allowed here to make some comment on the beauty of the sentiment causing this sadness; for certainly he was not actuated by a common sensual, selfish regret at youth departing. Beauty, youth, love, fortune, and celebrity, all smiled on him then; he possessed every one of them to a degree capable of satisfying any vanity, or any pride, but they were inadequate, ...

— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli

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