YOUTHS

Noun

youths

plural of youth

Anagrams

• Tuohys, housty, shouty

Source: Wiktionary


YOUTH

Youth (uth), n.; pl. Youths (uths; 264) or collectively Youth. Etym: [OE. youthe, youhþe, ýuhethe, ýuwethe, ýeoýethe, AS. geoguth, geogoth; akin to OS. jugth, D. jeugd, OHG. jugund, G. jugend, Goth. junda. *281. See Young.]

1. The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. "In my flower of youth." Milton. Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial. Milton.

2. The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood. He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home. Shak. Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly. Rambler.

3. A young person; especially, a young man. Seven youths from Athens yearly sent. Dryden.

4. Young persons, collectively. It is fit to read the best authors to youth first. B. Jonson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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