youth — OAT · Shobdo

youth

noun

1 he had been a keen sportsman in his youth:

early years, early life, young days, teens, teenage years, adolescence, preadolescence, young adulthood, boyhood, girlhood, childhood;

immaturity;

prime, heyday, day, hour, time, springtime, salad days, bloom, peak, pinnacle, height;

Law minority;

rare juvenility, juvenescence.

▷antonyms adulthood, old age.

2 she had kept her youth and beauty:

youthfulness, youngness, freshness, bloom.

▷antonyms maturity.

3 the problem of unemployment among local youths:

young man, boy, lad, youngster, juvenile, teenager, adolescent, junior, minor, young one;

stripling, whippersnapper, fledgling;

Scottish, & Northern English bairn;

informal kid, chav, hoodie, teen, shaver.

▷antonyms old man.

4 the youth of the nation are looking for a hero:

young people, young, younger generation, rising generation, next generation;

informal kids.

▷antonyms elderly.