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Youth Juːθ Spent Advantage Runners Young Noun Bre
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youth |
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BrE / juːθ / NAmE / juːθ / |
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- 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 / - 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.
- 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.
- a young man
- The fight was started by a gang of youths.
- 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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