youth
noun
[ juːθ ]
• the period between childhood and adult age.
• "he had been a keen sportsman in his youth"
Similar:
early years,
early life,
young days,
teens,
teenage years,
adolescence,
preadolescence,
young adulthood,
boyhood,
girlhood,
childhood,
immaturity,
prime,
heyday,
day,
hour,
time,
springtime,
salad days,
bloom,
peak,
pinnacle,
height,
minority,
juvenility,
juvenescence,
• a young man.
• "he was attacked by a gang of youths"
Similar:
young man,
boy,
lad,
youngster,
juvenile,
teenager,
adolescent,
junior,
minor,
young one,
stripling,
whippersnapper,
fledgling,
bairn,
kid,
chav,
hoodie,
teen,
shaver,
Origin:
Old English geoguth, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch jeugd, German Jugend, also to young.
