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Youth

YOUTH, n. Yuth. [G.]
1. The part of life that succeeds to childhood. In a general sense, youth denotes the whole early part of life, from infancy to manhood; but it is not unusual to divide the stages of life into infancy, childhood, youth, and manhood. In this sense the word can have no plural.
Those who pass their youth in vice, are justly condemned to spend their age in folly.
2. A young man. In this sense it has a plural.
Seven youths from Athens yearly sent--
3. A young person, male or female.
4. Young persons, collectively.
It is fit to youth to read the best authors first.
youth appears in definitions for these words:
Adolescence Age Air Alienate Allowance Angel Bloom Blooming Bloomy Boil Breed Bridle Capacity Cency Childhood Colts-tooth Come Consign Conversative Couch Creator Crop Dalliance Dare Dawn Debauch Deception Decline Destructive Diffident Discern Discernment Discipline Dishonest Disproportional Diversion Ductile Education Encouragement Enter Entrance Espousals Expectation Fall Fascinate Favor Fellow Ferment Figure Flexible Flourish Flower Folly Forward Forwardness Fresh Freshness Fumous Gallant Gayety Gentle Girlish Give Good Grave-stone Greenhorn Greenness Hapless Hie Homebred Hopeful Hotbrained Ill Imbitter Imbue Implant Importance Incautious Incongruity Indebted Inexperience Infusible Insnare Inspection Institutor Jovial Juvenile Juvenility Keep Knight Know Ladkin Levity Liveliness Lively Lusty Man Mastership May Melt Mercurial Merit Mischievousness Mistaught Modest Nauseate Nip Offer Own Permistion Petulanceulancy Petulant Phaeton Pleasantness Pliable Poison Preciptancy Precociousness Preserve Primary Prime Princely Promise Promising Pubescence Pupil Race Rear Rejuvenescence Remember Renew Rifle Rime Ring Robust Rosy Ruddy Sally Salt Salutary Scar School Seldom Shorten Sinewed Spike Spirit Sport Sprightly Spring Springal Spruntly Staidness Stale Stillness Stripling Suggest Swain Tame Taste Thrifty Throw Towards Trick Trust Unassuming Under Unmannerly Unpromising Unreformed Unruly Unstaid Unsuspicious Unthinking Up Vault Vernal Vesation Vigorous Vitiate Volatileness Warm Wear Wildness Witless Youngth Youth Youthful Youthfully

 

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