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youth

US: /ˈjuθ/

UK: /jˈuːθ/

English Vietnamese dictionary

youth /ju:θ/

danh từ
- tuổi trẻ, tuổi xuân, tuổi thanh niên, tuổi niên thiếu
  - the days of youth: thời kỳ niên thiếu
  - from youth upwards: từ lúc còn trẻ, từ nhỏ
  - the enthusiasm of youth: nhiệt tình của tuổi trẻ
- (nghĩa bóng) buổi ban đầu; thời non trẻ
  - the youth of civilization: buổi ban đầu của nền văn minh
  - the youth of a nation: thời kỳ non trẻ của một quốc gia
- thanh niên; tầng lớp thanh niên, lứa tuổi thanh niên
  - a promising youth: một thanh niên đầy hứa hẹn
  - a bevy of youths: một đám thanh niên
  - the youth of one country: lứa tuổi thanh niên của một nước
  - The Communist Youth League: Đoàn thanh niên cộng sản
  - The Ho Chi Minh Labour Youth Union: Đoàn thanh niên lao động Hồ Chí Minh

Advanced English dictionary

1 [U] 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 [U] 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 [C] (often disapproving) a young man: The fight was started by a gang of youths.
4 (also the youth) [pl.] young people considered as a group: the nation's youth + the youth of today + youth culture + youth unemployment

Thesaurus dictionary

1 childhood, boyhood, girlhood, young manhood, young womanhood, prepubescence, pubescence, adolescence, salad days; immaturity, minority:

In our youth we do many foolish things we might later regret.

2 child, youngster, schoolchild, teenager, teen, minor, juvenile, adolescent; boy, schoolboy, stripling, young boy or man, lad, laddie, whippersnapper; girl, lass, lassie, schoolgirl, maid, maiden, Literary damsel, demoiselle, mademoiselle, Colloq kid, (little) shaver, US and Canadian tad, Slang teeny-bopper, Brit sprog:

As youths, they used to spend time at rock concerts.

3 children, youngsters, juveniles, adolescents, young people, young, Colloq kids:

The youth of today have little respect for their elders.

Collocation dictionary

¹ period of your life when you are young

ADJ.

early | unhappy | lost

nostalgia for her lost youth

| misspent

His lack of qualifications was taken as a sign of a misspent youth.

VERB + YOUTH

spend

She spent much of her youth in Hong Kong.

| idle away, waste

He wasted his youth in front of a computer screen.

PREP.

during your ~

She contracted the disease during her youth.

| from ~

from youth to maturity

| in your ~

He started going to discos in his early youth.

| since your ~

I haven't danced since my youth!

| throughout your ~

He played football throughout his youth.

PHRASES

not in the first flush of youth

Though no longer in the first flush of youth she's still remarkably energetic.

| scenes from/of sb's youth

² being young

ADJ.

extreme

Her extreme youth was against her.

| comparative | eternal

in search of eternal youth

VERB + YOUTH

have

You still have your youth?that's the main thing.

³ young person

ADJ.

male | black, white | callow

He was a callow youth when he joined the newspaper.

| pimply, spotty

She's going out with some spotty youth.

| fresh-faced | gangling

QUANT.

gang, group

⁴ young people

ADJ.

modern

the aspirations of modern youth

(figurative) a club for the gilded youth (= rich and spoilt young people)of London

YOUTH + NOUN

culture | club, group, movement, organization, subculture, work | leader, worker | employment, unemployment, training | court, crime, custody

a crackdown on youth crime

PHRASES

the youth of today

Concise English dictionary

youthsjuːθ
noun
+a young person (especially a young man or boy)
+young people collectively
+the time of life between childhood and maturity
+early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced
+an early period of development
+the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person