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Youth Juːθ Spent Advantage Runners Young Noun Bre

Word youth
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / juːθ / NAmE / juːθ /
Example
  • he had been a talented musician in his youth.
  • she regrets that she spent her youth travelling and not studying.
  • she brings to the job a rare combination of youth and experience.
  • his youth gives him an advantage over the other runners.
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youth

(noun)BrE / juːθ / NAmE / juːθ /
  1. the time of life when a person is young, especially the time before a child becomes an adult
    • He had been a talented musician in his youth.
    • She regrets that she spent her youth travelling and not studying.
  2. the quality or state of being young
    • She brings to the job a rare combination of youth and experience.
    • His youth gives him an advantage over the other runners.
  3. a young man
    • The fight was started by a gang of youths.
  4. young people considered as a group
    • the nation’s youth
    • the youth of today
    • youth culture
    • youth unemployment

    Extra Examples

    • He played football throughout his youth.
    • He started going clubbing in his early youth.
    • He was a callow youth when he joined the newspaper.
    • He wasted his youth in front of a computer screen.
    • Her extreme youth was against her.
    • His lack of qualifications was taken as a sign of a misspent youth.
    • I haven’t danced since my youth!
    • She contracted the disease during her youth.
    • She saw it as a chance to relive her misspent youth.
    • She spent much of her youth in Hong Kong.
    • She’s going out with some spotty youth.
    • The new cream is marketed as the fountain of youth.
    • The website targets unemployed youth.
    • Though no longer in the first flush of youth she’s still remarkably energetic.
    • You still have your youth—that’s the main thing.
    • a club for the gilded youth of London
    • a crackdown on youth crime
    • a program to educate our youth on the causes of health problems
    • from youth to maturity
    • in search of eternal youth
    • nostalgia for her lost youth
    • the aspirations of modern youth
    • youth outreach programs run by the charity
    • His youth gives him an advantage over other runners.
    • A 17-year-old youth has been arrested.
    • Many people think the youth of today are not taught proper standards of behaviour.
    • The Royal Family is facing an uncertain future, according to the nation’s youth.
    • an increase in youth unemployment
    • youth politics/culture

    Word Origin

    • Old English geoguth, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch jeugd, German Jugend, also to young.
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