Youth

Definition of Youth

Pronunciation: ūth

n.	1.
	1.	The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. 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.

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