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Definition: Youth |
YouthNoun1. A young person (especially a young man or boy). 2. Young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt". 3. The time of life between childhood and maturity. 4. Early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced. 5. An early period of development; "during the youth of the project". 6. The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "youth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Youth \Youth\ ([=u]th), noun; plural Youths([=u]ths) or collectively Youth. [Old English youthe, youh[thorn]e, [yogh]uhe[eth]e, [yogh]uwe[eth]e, [yogh]eo[yogh]e[eth]e, Anglo-Saxon geogu[eth], geogo[eth]; akin to Old Saxon jug[eth], Dutch jeugd, Old High German jugund, German jugend, Gothic junda. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer. Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and clows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost! Polydore Smith Z. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | The dynamo that makes the world go round; a product of its own generation, with its wires carrying Power into the high places of Earth and with its currents of Thought short-circuited only by bigoted Old Age. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Statistics | The segment of the population under 15 years of age. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Adolescence is the transitional stage of development from child to adult. That time is identified with dramatic changes in body, psychology and academic career. In the onset of adolescence, children usually complete elementary school and enter secondary education, such as middle school or high school.
During this period of life, most children go through the physical stages of puberty, which often begin before a person has reached the age of 13. Most cultures regard people as becoming adults at various ages of the teenage years. Many cultures have a formal age of majority when adolescents formally become adults. For example, Japan's celebration of this in January is called the coming of age (or 成人式) (see Japanese calendar).
Puberty
Puberty, occurring during adolescence, is the stage in the human lifespan when a child begins to develop adult secondary sex characteristics as their hormone balance shifts towards an adult state. Briefly, this is caused by the hypothalamus gland that secretes hormones into the blood stream which trigger growth in the gonads: the girl's ovaries and the boy's testicles. In female adolescents, the first menstrual period is called menarche.
In developed countries, the age at puberty has reduced in the last century, primarily because of better nutrition. That change is particularly apparent in the countries that adopted western food such as Japan. Girls tend to go through puberty earlier than boys.
Preteens
The word preteen describes a child a bit younger than a teenager: perhaps between the ages of about 8 and 12. The neologism tween has the same meaning. This word comes from the age being between that of a child and a teenager.
Preteens are increasingly a specifically targeted market segment by business, because they tend to maintain the preferences they develop at this age. Examples are personal devices such as cellular phones targeted to this segment.
Teenagers
A teenager or teen is a person whose age is a number ending in "-teen" in the English language: that is to say, someone from the age of thirteen to the age of nineteen. The word is of recent origin, only having appeared in the mid 20th century. In Western culture, a distinct teenage culture has developed. This culture is often considered inferior to the mainstream culture, or in rebellion against it, and is thus often referred to as a subculture or counterculture.
In Japan, the term joshi-kousei (女子高生, meaning female high school students) has become widely used for females strictly in the ages from 16 to 18. They are often noted for their obsession with clothes, pop culture and mobile phones. They are often the target of sexual fantasy and ridicule of their obsessions. Prostitution by them, called enjo kousai (援助交際) in Japan, has become a permanent social issue in the late 1990s.
Psychology of adolescents
Maturity in body leads to an interest in sexual activities, sometimes leading to teenage pregnancy. Since they may not be emotionally mature enough or financially able to support children, the latter is usually considered problematic.
At this age there is also a greater probability of drug abuse and alcohol abuse, or mental problems such as schizophrenia, eating disorders and depression. The emotional instability among some adolescents also sometimes causes youth crime.
Search for a unique identity is one of the problems that adolescents often face. They start to ask metaphysical questionss about the meaning of life.
At this age, role models such as sports players and rock stars are popular, and adolescents often express a desire to be like their chosen role model. For this reason, people who are considered role models are often heavily criticised for their behaviour, because of the perceived danger of adolescents copying them.
Social significance
In commerce, this generation is seen as an important target. Cellular phones, contemporary popular music, video games and clothes are popular amongst adolescents.
In the past (and still in some cultures) there were ceremonies that celebrate adulthood, typically occurring during adolescence. Genpuku (translated as coming of age) in Japan is an instance.
Legal issues
In many countries, those over a certain age (perhaps 18, though this varies) are legally considered responsible adults. Those who are under the age of legal responsibility may be considered too young to be held accountable for criminal action. This is called the defense of infancy. The right to vote in elections is given between the ages of 16 and 21 in many countries.
The sale of selected items such as cigarettes, alcohol, videos, and video games with sexual or violent content, is often prohibited based on age. Such age restrictions vary widely. In practice, it is common that young people engage in underage smoking or drinking, and in some cultures this is tolerated to a certain degree.
Given the emotional immaturity of adolescents, many countries consider those under a certain age to be too young to engage in sexual intercourse and other sexual activities, even if they are physiologically capable. See age of consent. This issue has been dramatised in the movie Lolita.
Because of their maturing bodies, adolescents may become more likely targets of sex crimes. Clinically pedophilia (or underage sex) is defined as interest in children before puberty, yet in practice it may also include interest in adolescents. In many countries, molestation of adolescents has become a social issue and is considered a serious crime. Pornography involving those under a certain age, typically 18 (see child pornography), is also considered unacceptable and strictly prohibited in most countries. Countries without such laws may be targets for child sex tourism.
In the past (and still in poor countries), female adolescents were sometimes forced to engage in prostitution, even at a young age.
Fiction about teenagers:
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Stand by Me
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Outsiders
Websites for teenagers
- ThePalace.com. Pick your body image and pick your threads and then party
See also:
- boy band
- child
- education
- rite of passage
- school
- sex education
- sexual abstinence
- teen idol
- teen magazine
- The Teenage Liberation Handbook
- youth culture
Compare with:
The Adolescents is also a name of music band.
- aging
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Adolescence."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In law, a youth is a person who is neither an adult nor a child, but somewhere in between, commonly called a teenager.The age in which a person is considered a "youth," and thus eligible for special treatment under the law varies around the world. Commonly, a youth is defined as being somewhere between age 12 and age 20, with different countries and administrative regions choosing more narrow definitions within that frame.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Youth."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
YOUTH | English | Community action programme for youth | Social Sciences |
| YONET | English | Youth Opportunities Network | Social Sciences |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: YouthSynonyms: early days (n), juvenility (n), spring chicken (n), young (n), young person (n), younker (n), youthfulness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: aged (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Infant | Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle. |
Newness | Noun: newness; Adjective: novelty, recency; immaturity; youth; gloss of novelty. |
Restoration | Renaissance, second youth, rejuvenescence,. new birth; regeneration, regeneracy, regenerateness; palingenesis, reconversion. |
Weakness | Softling, weakling; infant; youth. |
Youth | Prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life; heyday of youth, school days; rising generation. |
Phrase: "youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm"; " youth.. the glad season of life". | |
Noun: youth; juvenility, juvenescence; juniority; infancy; babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood; incunabula; minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Philip Van Doren Stern; Frances Goodrich) Of that suppleness you once commanded in your youth, of that strange simplicity which once attracted men to you, neither endures, nor shall you recapture them (Seven Faces of Dr. Lao; writing credit: Charles G. Finney; Charles Beaumont) You refuse to take the information I give you. Maybe you don't care if I'm here? You don't care Youth of today (Jidder; writing credit: Christoffer Dahlin; Fredrik Klasson) Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform (D.A.R.Y.L.; writing credit: David Ambrose; Allan Scott) Wrinkled and senile and cursing me for my youth, it wasn't our happiest time (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | A hesitant prize fighter still trapped within my youth (Sometimes When We Touch; performing artist: Dan Hill) Though you've grown beyond your years, you still retain the fears of youth (Little Jeannie; performing artist: Elton John) Is this our youth subculture (Too Beautiful; performing artist: Heart) Wants to look back on their youth and wonder ("I Hope You Dance"; performing artist: Lee Ann Womack) You said that irony was the shackles of youth (What's The Frequency, Kenneth?; performing artist: R.E.M.) | |
Clever | George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. (references; author: Mark Twain) Youth wastes away, but immaturity can last a lifetime. (references; author: unknown) We spent our whole youth to obtain wealth, and our whole wealth to obtain youth. (references; author: unknown) Youth is when we are always hunting greener pastures, and middle age is when we can barely mow the one we've got. (references; author: unknown) Some have the wisdom of old age and the energy of youth. Most have the wisdom of youth, and the energy of old age. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dead Youth (1967) Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) Naked Youth (1960) Festival of Youth (1958) The Fountain of Youth (1958) | |
Song Titles | Youth Of A Nation (performing artist: P.O.D.) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Earth Team youth examining a butterfly beside a wetland in eastern South Dakota. Credit: Don Poggensee. |  | Sherrie Petersen and Denise Meridith, Arizona State Director, greet WOW campers. The WOW program -- Wonderful Outdoor World -- brings the great outdoors to urban youth. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Smokey the Bear pays a visit to WOW (Wonderful Outdoor World), a program that brings traditional outdoor activities to urban youth. Credit: Unknown. |  | Awaken Your Glands and Nerves and Regain the Vigor of Youth in 24 Hours!. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | One common characteristic shared by those who take 'speed' is youth. / WHO photos by C. Blackwell & E. Mandelmann. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Liberty. In the form of the goddess of youth; giving support to the bald eagle. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A kind of jealousy of her daughter for one strange moment possessed her -- jealousy of youth and love and opening life : or the evening seemed to halo and caress her. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Only one, the tall blond youth hesitated --. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Youth, to kindly old gentleman who had thought it would be only decent, don't you know ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Recruiting officer (to hesitating youth): a private gets fifty cents a day, a corporal gets sixty-five ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Domincan youth" by Kevin Rohr Commentary: "Two Dominican youth watch on." | "Youth writings" by Luis Alves Commentary: "Free toughts written in a black metal board in the street." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Adolf Hitler | Whoever has the youth has the future. |
Anne Sophie Swetchine | Youth should be a savings bank. |
Benjamin Franklin | Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming. |
Euripides | Youth holds no society with grief. |
Henri Estienne | If youth but knew; if age but could. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Youth comes but once in a lifetime. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | Keep true to the dreams of your youth. |
Oneida | Youth without faith is a day without sun. |
Theognis | Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought. |
William Shakespeare | Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | What is passable in youth is detestable in later age. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Monseigneur Bienvenu had been formerly, according to the accounts of his youth and even of his early manhood, a passionate, perhaps a violent, man. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | No life or youth stirred in him as it had stirred in them |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost |
Measure for Measure | William Shakespeare | Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-diner's sleep, dreaming on both |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Include notable increases among homeless and runaway youth. (references) | |
Legislative barriers that discourage effective programs aimed at youth must be eliminated. (references) | ||
Cognitive-behavioral educational and skills-building groups for youth and adolescents in various settings. (references) | ||
Business | In 1996, ca. 34 percent of the South African labor force was unemployed, with youth unemployment at 53 percent. (references) | |
Further affecting the chances of youth participation in the market place are inefficiencies and inequalities in the labor market. (references) | ||
In the Western and Northern region of the country, there are a few tourist huts. Youth hostels are rare, only two are in function. (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | Youth are both victims and perpetrators of violence. (references) |
Panama | Youth participation in criminal gangs is an increasing problem. (references) | |
Dominican Republic | The Mejia Government created a new Ministry of Youth soon after the election. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Belarus | A 1997 Council of Ministers directive prohibits teaching religion at youth camps. (references) |
Ethiopia | The demonstration then moved off campus, and other youth joined the demonstrations. (references) | |
Cameroon | Members of the President Biya Youth (PRESBY), a ruling party-affiliated organization, also attacked the demonstrators. (references) | |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | Youth unemployment remains a critical problem. (references) |
Bahamas | Unemployment is highest among youth and slightly higher for women. (references) | |
Jamaica | Jamaica's unemployment remains heavily concentrated among women and youth. (references) | |
Human Rights | Gambia | The athletes were participating in the National Youth Conference. (references) |
Trinidad and Tobago | Children between the ages of 15 and 19 are held at the Youth Training Center. (references) | |
Portugal | While there is a youth prison in Leiria, juveniles are at times held with adults. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Australia | The AIC reports that the incarceration rate among indigenous youth was 18.5 times that of the nonindigenous youth population in 1999. Over 45 percent of Aboriginal men between the ages of 20 and 30 years have been arrested at some time in their lives. (references) |
Minorities | Bulgaria | In November 2000, in Botevgrad, a neighbor shot and injured Asen Sashev, a 14-year-old Roma youth during an altercation. (references) |
Switzerland | In October a court in Bern convicted two skinheads in their early 20's and sentenced them to 5 years in prison for firing fired 110 shots at an alternative youth center. (references) | |
Political Economy | COSTA RICA | The Constitution provides special employment protection for women and youth. (references) |
Zimbabwe | ZANU-PF unleashed veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation war, ruling party militants and unemployed youth against commercial farmers and other suspected MDC supporters. (references) | |
Finland | Even though individual Conservative leaders and the party's youth organization have openly advocated Finnish NATO membership, the party backs the government's posture of nonalignment. (references) | |
Political Rights | Ghana | In many cases, the protesters were NPP youth activists unhappy with allegedly disloyal nominees. (references) |
Venezuela | The National Assembly's Family, Women, and Youth Committee promotes political opportunities for women. (references) | |
Lesotho | Two women are government ministers, one the Minister of Environment, Women, and Youth Affairs and the other the Minister of Health and Social Welfare. (references) | |
Travel | Ghana | The increased use of the Internet, especially among the urban youth and businesspersons, has led to establishment of several Internet cafes in recent months. (references) |
Women | Lesotho | In 1998 the Government created the Ministry of Environment, Gender, and Youth Affairs. (references) |
India | On July 23, a 55-year-old woman accused of being a witch was beheaded by a tribal youth in Orissa. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | Traffickers were known to enter nightclubs or other youth gathering places to look for recruits. (references) |
Malawi | The police and the Ministry of Gender, Youth, and Community Services handle any cases that arise. (references) | |
Gambia | Child labor protection does not extend to youth performing customary chores on family farms or engaged in petty trading. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off -- to Missolonghi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Kevin Kline | Mr. Bell, a word of warning, as the great wit Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated, youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. |
Prince Albert of Monaco | Yeah. I used to play in my youth. I used to play for AS Monaco, for the, you know, Monaco football team. |
Rush Limbaugh | I will bet you that, with the money they received, Philip Morris is doing more to prevent youth smoking than all the states combined. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Amongst the motives to such an institution, the assimilation of the principles, opinions, and manners of our country-men by the common education of a portion of our youth from every quarter well deserves attention. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Good order is preserved in it, and the youth are well instructed in every science connected with the great objects of the institution. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | In that institution a part of the revenue of the nation is applied to defray the expense of educating a competent portion of her youth chiefly to the knowledge and the duties of military life. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | As the idealism of our youth has served world peace, so can it serve the domestic tranquility. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We must enact youth employment legislation to put jobless, aimless, hopeless youngsters to work on useful projects. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Nor must we lose the chance to pass our youth employment opportunity wage proposal. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Youth" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.54% of the time. "Youth" is used about 4,550 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.54% | 4,347 | 2,260 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.3% | 196 | 21,868 |
| Noun (common) | 0.15% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,550 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "youth". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Alemeth | N/A | Biblical | Youth |
| Elihoreph | N/A | Biblical | Of youth |
| Junia | N/A | Biblical | Youth |
| Mibhar | N/A | Biblical | Youth |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Ramsay Youth Services, Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "youth": age of youth ♦ an unfledged youth ♦ be in the flower of youth ♦ bloom of youth ♦ callow youth ♦ chaste youth ♦ days of smb.'s youth ♦ days of youth ♦ exceptional youth ♦ fountain of youth ♦ Fountain of Youth Qigong ♦ from my youth upwards ♦ gilded youth ♦ Homeless Youth ♦ in early youth ♦ in her youth ♦ in my youth ♦ in one's youth ♦ in the full bloom of youth ♦ in the pride of youth ♦ in the prime of youth ♦ maladjusted youth ♦ ministry of youth and sports ♦ perennial youth ♦ the youth ♦ wife of one's youth ♦ youth care ♦ youth center ♦ youth club ♦ youth crusade ♦ youth culture ♦ youth fare ♦ youth gang ♦ youth group ♦ youth hostel ♦ youth is wasted on the young ♦ youth movement ♦ youth of premilitary age ♦ youth of today ♦ Youth Opportunities Programme ♦ youth organisation ♦ youth rallying ♦ youth recreation centre ♦ Youth Start ♦ youth subculture ♦ youth work ♦ youth worker. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "youth": youth-based, youth-club, youth-conscious, youth-democratic, youth-hostel-cum-doss-house, youth-hostelled, youth-hostelling, youth-of-today, youth-on-age, youth-orientated, youth-oriented, youth-preserving, youth-sex-madness, youth-sustaining, youth-team, youth-training, Youth-v-experience. | |
Ending with "youth": Party-youth. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
youth program | 2,435 | youth cocktail | 211 |
youth | 876 | at risk youth | 199 |
youth hostel | 870 | youth group | 189 |
youth baseball | 774 | commission texas youth | 178 |
youth soccer | 735 | youth specialty | 176 |
youth ministry | 703 | youth bible study | 170 |
youth fund raiser | 650 | especially youth | 165 |
youth fund raising | 627 | club league soccer soccer youth | 163 |
sonic youth | 626 | international youth hostel | 161 |
youth hockey | 464 | fountain of youth | 157 |
youth camp | 364 | youth sermon | 151 |
youth furniture | 359 | youth sports | 150 |
youth baseball tournament | 287 | youth game | 140 |
youth football | 283 | youth with a mission | 136 |
youth baseball bat | 272 | summer youth job | 136 |
dixie youth baseball | 272 | youth employment | 135 |
youth basketball | 232 | youth for christ | 131 |
youth group game | 220 | hitler youth | 123 |
youth of a nation | 219 | minnesota youth soccer | 118 |
youth job | 213 | gay youth | 110 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "youth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | jongmens (youngster). (various references) | |
Albanian | të rinjtë, rinia, rini (juvenility, prime, recency, young blood, youthfulness). (various references) | |
Arabic | فتى (adolescent, boy, bugger, lad, scout, sprig, young man, youngish, youngster), صبا (girlhood, yearning, youthfulness), الفتوة, الشبيبة, الشبان, شاب (admix, boy, chap, contaminate, lad, sprig, stud, tinge, young, young man, youngster, youthful), شبيبة, شباب (freshness, youthfulness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | юноша (adolescent, sapling, stripling), ранен стадий на съществуване, ранен стадий на развитие, младост (adolescence, juvenescence, juvenility, springtime, verdure), младо поколение, младини, млади хора, млад човек (chicken). (various references) | |
Chinese | 青春 (youthfulness), 青年时期 (Youths), 青年 . (various references) | |
Czech | mládí (prime, the youth). (various references) | |
Danish | ungdom. (various references) | |
Dutch | jeugd, jeugdigheid. (various references) | |
Esperanto | junulo (youngster), juneco. (various references) | |
Faeroese | unglingi (youngster), ungdómur. (various references) | |
Farsi | نوباوگان , جوانی (Springtime), جوانمرد (Chivalrous, Manly, Sportsmanlike), جوانان , شخص جوان , شباب (Springtime). (various references) | |
Finnish | nuoriso (young people). (various references) | |
French | jeunesse (youthfulness). (various references) | |
Frisian | jonkheid, feint (attendant, fiancé, servant, youngster). (various references) | |
German | Jugend (adolescence, boyhood, young people, youthfulness), Jugendliche (adolescent, juvenilely, teenage, teenager, young person, youthful), Jüngling (lad, teenager, youngling, youngster). (various references) | |
Greek | νεότητα (juvenilness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משחר (childhood, dawn), ילד (boy, child, son, youngster), תשחורת (conscription, early manhood), שחרות, עלומים, עלם (lad, sprig, stripling, youngster), בחורות (age of youth), בחרות (days of youth), צעירות (juniority, juvenility), נוער (boyhood), נעורים (boyhood, juvenilia, juvenility), נערות (adolescence, boyhood, girlhood, maidenhood, puerility), נער (boy, child, lad, laddie, stripling, youngster). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ifjúság (young people), fiatalság (juvenility, mettle of youth, the younger generation). (various references) | |
Icelandic | ungdómur (youngster), æska. (various references) | |
Indonesian | masa muda, belia (young). (various references) | |
Irish | ógfhear, ógÚnach. (various references) | |
Italian | giovinezza (girlhood, juvenility), gioventù, adolescenza (adolescence, boyhood, girlhood, juvenescence, teens). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 若者 (lad, young man). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ユース , そうてい (assumption, binding, cloven foot, format, hypothesis, row, sending a book as a present, supposition, young man who has reached adulthood), しょうそう (fretfulness, impatience, injury, irritation, prematurity, uneasiness, wound), ねんしょうしゃ (minor, young people), ねんしょう (burning, combustion, yearlyturnover), せいしゅん (adolescent, springtime of life), せいしょうねん (young person), せいねんじだい (one's younger days), せいねん (adult age, age, majority, prime of life, the year of a person's birth, young man), わかさ, わかもの (lad, young man), じゃくしょう (puniness), じゃくねん (desolate, lonely), じゃくれい, だんし (young man). (various references) | |
Manx | aegid (adolescence, immaturity; young people). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ungdom (juvenile, youngster). (various references) | |
Papiamen | hubentut, hobensitu (youngster), hobensito (youngster), hoben (young, youngster). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | youthay.(various references) | |
Polish | młodzieniec (youngster), młodość. (various references) | |
Portuguese | juventude (boyhood, young), jovem (boy, house-boy, juvenile, kid, lad, laddie, sapling, stripling, tender, young, youngling, youngster, youthful). (various references) | |
Romanian | tineri (young, young people), tineret (young), tinereţe (adolescence, childhood, girlhood, heyday, juvenescence, juvenility, may, verdure, youthfulness), tânãr (adolescent, boy, childish, colt, juvenile, kid, lad, male, shaver, stripling, young, youngster, youthful), june (boy, green, stripling, young, youngster), flãcãu (bachelor, chap, fellow, guy, lad, laddie, scout, Swain, young), feciorie (Maidenhead, maidenhood, teens, virginity), copilandru, bãieţandru (stripling), bãiat (beggar, boy, caddie, chap, child, fellow, guy, Jack, lad, scout, son, youngster), adolescent (adolescent, greenhorn, juvenile, stripling, teen-ager, teens, youngster), adolescenţã (adolescence, flapper, girl, girlhood, teen age, teen-ager, teens). (various references) | |
Russian | молодость (adolescence). (various references) | |
Scottish | gille (boy, lad, man-servant), òganach (a youth, youngster). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | omladinac (teenager), omladina (juvenility), mladost (adolescence, may), mladež (beauty spot, birthmark, mole, naevus, stigma). (various references) | |
Spanish | juventud (girlhood, juvenility, littleness, year, young time, youthfulness), joven (girl, junior, juvenile, kid, lad, little, teen, teenage, young, young man, young woman, youngster, youthful), jóvenes (young, young people). (various references) | |
Sranan | yonkuman (youngster). (various references) | |
Swahili | kijana (youngster). (various references) | |
Swedish | ungdom (adolescence, adolescent, adolscent, juvenescence, juvenility, youngster), yngling (boy, lad, stripling, young man, youngling). (various references) | |
Turkish | genç (adolescent, gossoon, green, junior, juvenile, sapling, teen, teenager, teeny, whelp, young, young man, youngish, youngster, youthful). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яigitlik.Turkmen/English, яaюlyk, juwanlyk (adolescence), juwan (young people). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | юність (adolescence, adolescency, juvenility, nonage, springtime), юнацтво (adolescence, juvenility), юнак (adolescent, adult, juvenile, lad, shaveling, sprig, stripling, yearling, youngling, youngster, younker), світанок (cockcrow, dawn, dawning, day-break, daylight, day-spring), молодь (young, young people, youthhead), молодість (youthfulness, youthhead), зоря (dawning, day-spring, star). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tuổi xuân, tuổi trẻ (juvenility), tuổi thanh niên, thời non trẻ thanh niên, tầng lớp thanh niên, lứa tuổi thanh niên. (various references) | |
Welsh | mebyd (boyhood, childhood, infancy), macwy (page), mabolaeth (boyhood, sonship), maboed (childhood, infancy), llanc (lad, young man), ieuenctid, iangwr (knave), glaslanc (stripling). (various references) | |
Zulu | insizwa (youngster). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | nam-dumu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adulescens, adulescente, adulescentem, adulescentes, adulescenti, adulescentia, adulescentiae, adulescentiam, adulescentibus, adulescentis, adulescentium, ephebus, ephoeborum, inveni, inventa, inventae, inventaeque, inventamque, inventis, inventum, inventus, inventusque, iuvenem, iuvenes, iuveni, iuvenibus, iuvenis, iuventus, iuventute, iuventutem, iuventutibus, iuventutis, iuvenum, juvenis, lanugo, plexueris, teneritudine, teneritudinem, ver, vera, vere, verene, veri, veris, verum. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ýûnãm, ýava, aperenâyûkô. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 18, Verse 21 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de eipen tauta panta efulaxamhn ek neothtoV mou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui ait haec omnia custodivi a iuventute mea |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa cwæð he eall þis ic heold of minre geoguþe; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Which seide, Y haue kept alle these thingis fro my yongthe. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he sayde: all these have I kept from my youthe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he said, All these have I kept from my youth. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he said, All these things I have done from the time when I was a boy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 18, Verse 21 |
| Cebuano | Ug siya miingon, "Kanang tanan ako nang ginabantayan sukad pa sa akong pagkabatan-on." |
| Chinese | 那 人 說 、 這 一 切 我 從 小 都 遵 守 了 。 |
| Croatian | A onaj æe: "Sve sam to èuvao od mladosti." |
| Danish | Men han sagde: "Det har jeg holdt alt sammen fra min Ungdom af." |
| Dutch | En hij zeide: Al deze dingen heb ik onderhouden van mijn jonkheid aan. |
| Finnish | Mutta hän sanoi: "Tätä kaikkea minä olen noudattanut nuoruudestani asti". |
| French | J`ai, dit-il, observé toutes ces choses dès ma jeunesse. |
| German | Er aber sprach: Das habe ich alles gehalten von meiner Jugend auf. |
| Haitian Creole | Nonm lan reponn: Mwen swiv tout bagay sa yo depi m' te tikatkat. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Semua perintah itu sudah saya turuti sejak muda," sahut orang itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka katanya, "Sekalian ini hamba sudah turut dari kecil." |
| Italian | Costui disse: «Tutto questo l'ho osservato fin dalla mia giovinezza». |
| Latvian | Tas sacîja: To visu esmu izpildîjis kopð jaunîbas. |
| Maori | Na ka mea ia, Kua rite i ahau enei katoa no toku tamarikitanga ake. |
| Norwegian | Men han sa: Alt dette har jeg holdt fra min ungdom av. |
| Portuguese | Replicou o homem: Tudo isso tenho guardado desde a minha juventude. |
| Rumanian | ,,Toate aceste lucruri,`` I -a zis el, ,,le-am pqzit din tinereyea mea.`` |
| Russian | пО ЦЕ УЛБЪБМ: ЧУЕ ЬФП УПИТБОЙМ С ПФ АОПУФЙ НПЕК. |
| Shuar | Tutai aishman Tímiayi "Uuntá, úchichik mash umiki tsakaruitjai." |
| Spanish | Entonces él dijo: --Todo esto lo he guardado desde mi juventud. |
| Swahili | Yeye akasema, "Hayo yote nimeyazingatia tangu ujana wangu." |
| Swedish | Då svarade han: "Allt detta har jag hållit från min ungdom." |
| Uma | Na'uli' tau toei: "Hawe'ea parenta tetu lau, kutuku' omea-mi ngkai kakedia' -ku." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "youth": youthen, youthened, youthening, youthens, youthful, youthfully, youthfulness, youthfulnesses, youthquake, youthquakes, youths. (additional references) | |
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"Youth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ayouth, douth, kouth, outh, Oysth, routh, Rymouth, Yeth, Yeugh, yeut, Yith, Yoash, yoet, yolt, Yootha, yotu, Youde, yount, younth, yoush, yout, youthe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "youth" (pronounced yuw"th) |
| 2 | -uw" th | booth, Ruth, sleuth, tooth, truth, uncouth, untruth, vermouth. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-o-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: thou. | |
-2 letters: hot, hoy, hut, out, tho, thy, toy, you. | |
-3 letters: ho, oh, oy, to, uh, ut, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-o-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: mouthy, touchy, toughy, youths. | |
+2 letters: doughty, drouthy, hautboy, toughly, typhous, yoghurt, youthen. | |
+3 letters: droughty, eutrophy, fourthly, hautboys, mouthily, touchily, unworthy, yoghourt, yoghurts, youthens, youthful. | |
+4 letters: authority, doughtily, euthyroid, hypocaust, loutishly, patchouly, southerly, throughly, uncouthly, yoghourts, youthened. | |
+5 letters: autography, autotrophy, auxotrophy, countryish, hypocausts, hypotenuse, neuropathy, outrightly, polyanthus, rubythroat, slothfully, thoroughly, thoughtway, throughway, touchingly, unworthily, upholstery, youthening, youthfully, youthquake. | |
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