youth

youth
noun
1 period of your life when you are young
ADJECTIVE
early
lost

nostalgia for her lost youth

misspent (often humorous)

His lack of qualifications was taken as a sign of a misspent youth.

VERB + YOUTH
spend

She spent much of her youth in Hong Kong.

recapture, relive

She saw it as a chance to relive her misspent youth.

waste

He wasted his youth in front of a computer screen.

PREPOSITION
during your youth

She contracted the disease during her youth.

from youth

from youth to maturity

in your youth

He started going clubbing in his early youth.

since your youth

I haven't danced since my youth!

throughout your youth

He played football throughout his youth.

PHRASES
not in the first flush of youth (esp. BrE)

Though no longer in the first flush of youth she's still remarkably energetic.

2 being young
ADJECTIVE
comparative, extreme (both esp. BrE)

Her extreme youth was against her.

eternal

in search of eternal youth

VERB + YOUTH
have

You still have your youth—that's the main thing.

PHRASES
the fountain of youth (figurative)

The new cream is marketed as the fountain of youth.

3 young person
ADJECTIVE
male
black, white
callow, impressionable, innocent

He was a callow youth when he joined the newspaper.

spotty (BrE)

She's going out with some spotty youth.

fresh-faced (esp. BrE)
gangling (esp. BrE), gangly (esp. AmE), lanky
at-risk, high-risk, troubled
… OF YOUTHS
gang (esp. BrE), group
4 young people
ADJECTIVE
modern

the aspirations of modern youth

local
inner-city, street (AmE), urban
working-class
immigrant
gay, Hispanic, Muslim
delinquent, disaffected
unemployed
educated
gilded (BrE), privileged
VERB + YOUTH
educate

a program to educate our youth on the causes of health problems

target

The website targets unemployed youth.

corrupt
YOUTH + NOUN
culture, subculture
centre/center, club, group, movement, organization
outreach (esp. AmE), programme/program (esp. AmE), scheme (BrE), work (esp. BrE)

youth outreach programs run by the charity

audience, market
sport (esp. BrE), sports (esp. AmE)
coach, team
basketball, football, hockey, etc.
band, orchestra
coordinator, leader, worker
minister, pastor (both AmE)
employment, training, unemployment
gang
violence
court, crime, custody (BrE)

a crackdown on youth crime

camp, hostel
PHRASES
the country's youth, the nation's youth
the youth of today, today's youth

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