Another word for youth
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Noun
The time of life between childhood and maturity
- To move upward or forward in a single quick motion or a series of such motions; leap:
- To move suddenly, especially because of being resilient or moved by a spring:
- To start doing something suddenly:
- A time of youth, innocence, and inexperience:
- The stage of adolescence in which an individual becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction.
- The quality or condition of being juvenile; youthfulness.
- Foolishly juvenile behavior or character; immaturity.
- An instance of juvenile behavior.
- The state or quality of being green; green colour. [from 8th c.]
- (now rare) Vitality, freshness. [from 9th c.]
- Inexperience. [from 16th c.]
- The period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to adulthood.
- A similar period in nonhuman animals, ending at sexual maturity.
- A transitional period of development between an initial or early phase and an established or mature phase:
See also:A young person, usually between the ages of 13 and 19
- A teenager.
- A person between the ages of 13 and 19; an adolescent.
- The numbers 10 through 19 or 13 through 19.
- The 10th through 19th items, in a series or scale:
- The 13th through 19th years of a person or animal's life:
- Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence.
- Characteristic of adolescence; immature:
- A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity.
See also:Young people collectively
- Being in an early period of life, development, or growth.
- Newly begun or formed; not advanced:
- Relating to, typical of, or suggestive of youth or early life:
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Another word for youth
Noun
The state or quality of being young
- A time of youth, innocence, and inexperience:
- The flower of a plant.
- Something resembling the flower of a plant:
- The condition of being in flower:
- The quality or condition of being a virgin.
- The state of being pure, unsullied, or untouched.
- (dated) Alternative spelling of teenage.
- The smaller in number of two groups forming a whole.
- A group or party having fewer than a controlling number of votes.
- A racial, religious, political, national, or other group thought to be different from the larger group of which it is part.
- The stage of adolescence in which an individual becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction.
- The time or state of being a child.
- The early stage in the existence or development of something:
- the state or time of being a girl
- girls collectively
- The period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to adulthood.
- A similar period in nonhuman animals, ending at sexual maturity.
- A transitional period of development between an initial or early phase and an established or mature phase:
- the state or time of being a boy
- boys collectively
Young people
A young person
- A young cow or bull.
- One of the young of certain other mammals, such as moose, elephants, or whales.
- Calfskin leather.
- A young dog; a puppy.
- One of the young of certain other animals, such as wolves, coyotes, rats, seals, or sharks.
- An inexperienced or conceited young person:
- A young goose.
- A naive or inexperienced young person.
- The numbers 10 through 19 or 13 through 19.
- The 10th through 19th items, in a series or scale:
- The 13th through 19th years of a person or animal's life:
- A young goat.
- One of the young of certain similar animals.
- The flesh of a young goat.
- One who is enrolled or attends classes at a school, college, or university.
- One who studies something:
- An attentive observer:
- Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence.
- Characteristic of adolescence; immature:
- A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity.
- A playful or mischievous youngster; a scamp.
- A sea urchin.
- A hedgehog.
- Not fully grown or developed; young.
- Of or characteristic of a young animal that has not reached sexual maturity:
- Characteristic of, intended for, or appropriate for children or young people:
- A young bird that has recently acquired its flight feathers.
- A young or inexperienced person.
- New and untried or inexperienced:
- An unmarried girl or woman.
- A woman or girl who is a virgin.
- A machine resembling the guillotine, used in Scotland in the 1500s and 1600s to behead criminals.
- A female child.
- A daughter:
- A woman.
- To fail to hit, reach, catch, or otherwise make contact with:
- To be too late for or fail to meet (a train, for example).
- To fail to perceive, experience, or understand:
- Used other than as an idiom: young man.
- A term of endearment or address for a boy.
- A male lover; a sweetheart.
- Lesser or smaller in amount, extent, or size.
- Lesser in importance, rank, or stature:
- Lesser in seriousness or danger:
- A male adolescent or young adult.
- A young person; a child or youth.
- A young animal.
- A boy or young man.
- A man of any age; a fellow.
- A person between the ages of 13 and 19; an adolescent.
- Used to distinguish a son from his father when they have the same given name.
- Intended for or including youthful persons:
- Lower in rank or shorter in length of tenure:
- A male child.
- A son:
- A man, especially a young man.
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