youth
a young person (especially a young man or boy)
How often you will meet it
Rank 628 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 30,607 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.015% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a young person (especially a young man or boy) also: young person, younker, spring chicken
- young people collectively also: young rock music appeals to the youngyouth everywhere rises in revolt
- the time of life between childhood and maturity
- early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced
- an early period of development also: early days during the youth of the project
- the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person also: youthfulness, juvenility
youth in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Lawrence, the younger, had been a delicate youth.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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I made you lead a miserable existence, spend a joyless youth.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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She knew everybody and had done everything in her youth, a good many things not considered highly proper.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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Under the tall elms stretch the shady streets, alive eternally with the ever-new youth of ever-coming hundreds of boys.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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John would have gladly done this and more for Lawrence, his fag-master; but Lawrence, a manly youth, scorned sybaritic services.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1