Youth

n.	1.
	1.	The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial. - Milton.
	2.	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. - Shak. Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly. - Rambler.
	3.	A young person; especially, a young man. Seven youths from Athens yearly sent. - Dryden.
	4.	Young persons, collectively. It is fit to read the best authors to youth first. - B. Jonson.

Noun	1.	youth - a young person (especially a young man or boy) Synonyms: spring chicken, young person, younker
	2.	youth - young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt" Synonyms: young
	3.	youth - the time of life between childhood and maturity
	4.	youth - early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced
	5.	youth - an early period of development; "during the youth of the project" Synonyms: early days
	6.	youth - the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person Synonyms: youthfulness, juvenility

adolescence, adolescent, adolescents, awkward age, baby, babyhood, beginnings, birth, boy, boyhood, bub, bubba, buck, bud, buddy, callowness, chick, child, childhood, childkind, children, chit, colt, cradle, cub, damsel, demoiselle, dewiness, fellow, fledgling, freshman year, genesis, girl, girlhood, greenness, hobbledehoy, hopeful, immaturity, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, inexperience, infancy, infant, junior, juvenal, juvenile, juveniles, juvenility, kid, kids, lad, laddie, lass, lassie, little kids, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, manchild, master, minor, minority, moppet, muchacho, nascence, nascency, nativity, new generation, origin, origination, parturition, pregnancy, prime, puberty, pubescence, pubescent, pup, puppy, rising generation, salad days, sapling, schoolboy, schoolgirl, slip, small fry, sonny, sonny boy, sprig, spring, springtide, springtime, stripling, tad, teen, teenager, teener, teenybopper, tots, unripeness, whelp, whippersnapper, young, young blood, young fry, young hopeful, young man, young people, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youngsters, youthfulness, youthhood

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