Synonyms for youth
yuθ; yuθs, yuðzyouth

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1. youthnoun

   The quality or state of being young.

   Her youth and beauty is what attracted him to her.

   Synonyms:
   juvenility, youthfulness

   Antonyms:
   age, dotage, old age, senility

2. youthnoun

   A young man

   Synonyms:
   boy, young man

3. youthnoun

   (used in plural form) Young persons, collectively.

   Synonyms:
   adolescent, lad, child, teen, kid, teenager, youngster

   Antonyms:
   adult, grown-up

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. youth

   Synonyms:
   youngster, young person, boy, lad, minority, adolescence, juvenility

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. young person, youth, younker, spring chickennoun

   a young person (especially a young man or boy)

   Synonyms:
   young, juvenility, younker, early days, youthfulness, young person, spring chicken

2. young, youthnoun

   young people collectively

   "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt"

   Synonyms:
   young, juvenility, younker, early days, youthfulness, young person, offspring, spring chicken

3. youthnoun

   the time of life between childhood and maturity

   Synonyms:
   younker, young, youthfulness, early days, juvenility, spring chicken, young person

4. youthnoun

   early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced

   Synonyms:
   younker, young, youthfulness, early days, juvenility, spring chicken, young person

5. youth, early daysnoun

   an early period of development

   "during the youth of the project"

   Synonyms:
   young, juvenility, younker, early days, youthfulness, young person, spring chicken

6. youth, youthfulness, juvenilitynoun

   the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

   Synonyms:
   young, juvenility, younker, callowness, jejuneness, early days, youthfulness, young person, spring chicken

Matched Categories

1. • Age Group
   • Juvenile
   • Maturity
   • Time Of Life
   • Time Period
   • Youngness

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. youthnoun

   Synonyms:
   juvenility, adolescence, juniority, minority, teens, bloom, nonage, youthfulness, prime of life, flower of life

2. youthnoun

   Synonyms:
   boy, stripling, school-boy, YOUNGSTER, lad

3. youthnoun

   Synonyms:
   young men, young women, young persons, the rising generation

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1. youthnoun

   Synonyms:
   juvenility, youthfulness, adolescence, teens, minority, nonage, juniority, young man, lad, boy, stipling, cadet, minor, juvenile, adolescent

   Associated words:
   rejuvenescence, rejuvenation, rejuvenate, rejuvenescent, rejuvenating, juvenescence, juvenescent

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1. List of paraphrases for "youth":

   young, youths, jeunesse, juvenile, adolescents, younger, youngsters, juventud, jeunes, juveniles, juvenil, juventude, jugend, adolescent, youthfulness, teenagers, al-shabab, qingnian, junior, kids, shabab, youthful

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How to use youth in a sentence?

1. E. M. Forster:

   Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

2. Oscar Wilde:

   To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

3. Asmi Fathelbab:

   It was disgusting, i ran the youth program in the building and with that comes bending down and talking to small children. You have no idea what it was like to stand up and feel that behind you. I couldn’t scream because I didn’t want to scare the child in front of me. It left me shaking.

4. William Wordsworth:

   For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

5. Melina Jampolis:

   I believe initiatives and interventions like this should be a priority not only in the school setting, but could also be extended to the home and restaurant setting to combat our obesogenic environment and give our country's youth the best chance at fighting the obesity epidemic and avoiding a lifetime of obesity-related diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, depression, joint disease and certain types of cancer.