Word Finder - youth

definition

The quality or state of being young.

example

Her youth and beauty attracted him to her.

synonyms

• juvenility
• youthfulness

definition

The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.

example

I made many mistakes in my youth, but learned from them all.

definition

A young person.

example

There was a group of youths hanging around the parking lot, reading fashion magazines and listening to music.

synonyms

• adolescent
• child
• kid
• lad
• teen
• teenager
• youngster

definition

A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.

synonyms

• boy
• young man

definition

(used with a plural or singular verb) Young persons, collectively.

synonyms

• adolescents
• kids
• teenagers
• teens
• young people
• youngsters

Most girls wanted to be a princess at some point in their youth, though she couldn't specifically remember that wish.

The youth looked lost again.

The youth had dropped into a dark hole in the floor of the facility.

The youth scrambled up as if accustomed to the treatment, yelling again at his father.

The youth hesitated, then pointed to himself.

The tall, stringy youth with white-blond hair turned to face them.

The youth spoke a few commanding words.

His health, which in his youth had been bad, improved.

In one country he meets with women who, after the burial in the winter, become alive again in the spring full of youth and beauty.

It is like a beautiful maiden, who always lived in a palace, surrounded by a magnificent court; while the "Iliad" is like a splendid youth, who has had the earth for his playground.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

The tall youth, against whom he stumbled, seized his thin neck with his hands and, yelling wildly, fell with him under the feet of the pressing, struggling crowd.

The youth was scared, which only terrified Taran

The youth flinched at his movement, then stared at him suspiciously.

His youth, spent at the Neapolitan court, was far from blameless, and it is not certain that he was married to the mother of his numerous family.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Perhaps these questions are entertained only in youth, as most believe of poetry.

As he spoke he kept glancing with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sonya and the young lady visitor.

The youth was smaller and nimble, accustomed to navigating the forest.

He swung it open, and the youth bowed.

To a youth and womanhood of storm and stress had succeeded an old age of serene activity and then of calm decay.

On the deposition of Charles the Fat in 887 he was excluded from the throne by his youth; but during the reign of Odo, who had succeeded Charles, he succeeded in gaining the recognition of a certain number of notables and in securing his coronation at Reims on the 28th of January 893.

Glowing with the heat and from running, he felt at that moment more strongly than ever the sense of youth, animation, and determination that had come on him when he ran to save the child.

The pale, dark-haired youth was drenched, but it was the wild look on his face that made her stop in the middle of the foyer and watch him pace with agitated energy.

A youth was stuffing a bag full of medical supplies.

Another woman lay on the ground near the youth named Damian, her shapely figure, porcelain complexion, and auburn hair indicating her beauty even in her sleep.

The youth was near panicking again.

The lanky youth had grown into a muscular man with icy green eyes, curly black hair, and chiseled features as cold as his father's.

The birds with their plumage and their notes are in harmony with the flowers, but what youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature?

She stopped beside him and indicated the youth with her thumb.

As a youth he fled from home to escape a clerical education, but afterwards joined his father in the coasting trade.

Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.

The most cunning man could not have crept into her confidence more successfully, evoking memories of the best times of her youth and showing sympathy with them.

It was a long time before the dragoons could extricate the bleeding youth, beaten almost to death.

Her look of soul-deep sorrow touched him, and he recalled what he felt as a youth to find his father and mother dead and his family hunted and forced out of their own home.

Taran felt someone watching him and peered between two of his father's men to see the youth his age with glowing green eyes.

She thought of Natasha and of her own youth, and of how there was something unnatural and dreadful in this impending marriage of Natasha and Prince Andrew.

The youth with the golden eyes sat back and looked around, appearing overwhelmed.

One of them wore a sash of red and black, a youth his age hiding behind him.

The youth beckoned to him.

I will confess to you, dear Mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for the army was a great grief to me.

Well, comrades and friends of my youth, we've had our fling and lived and reveled.

In spite of the many pills she swallowed and the drops and powders out of the little bottles and boxes of which Madame Schoss who was fond of such things made a large collection, and in spite of being deprived of the country life to which she was accustomed, youth prevailed.

The tall youth, with a stony look on his face, and rigid and uplifted arm, stood beside Vereshchagin.

And with a Frenchman's easy and naive frankness the captain told Pierre the story of his ancestors, his childhood, youth, and manhood, and all about his relations and his financial and family affairs, "ma pauvre mere" playing of course an important part in the story.

His face, despite its fine, rounded wrinkles, had an expression of innocence and youth, his voice was pleasant and musical.

The youth turned a corner, and Brady followed then stopped.

In less than two weeks, he'd aged, transforming from the lost youth she'd tried to take care of into a young immortal exploring his dark powers.

The youth glared at him for a long moment, then unfolded his arms, curiosity winning over.

After a profligate youth at court, he followed his wife in professing the Roman faith, and in 1585 made an attempt to leave England to seek safety from the penal laws.