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Antonyms for youths
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : yooth |
| Phonetic Transcription : yuθ |
Definition of youths
Origin :- Old English geoguð "youth," related to geong "young," from West Germanic *jugunthiz (cf. Old Saxon juguth, Old Frisian jogethe, Middle Dutch joghet, Dutch jeugd, Old High German jugund, German Jugend, Gothic junda "youth"), from the source of young (adj.)) + Proto-Germanic abstract noun suffix *-itho (see -th (2)).
- The West-Germanic form was altered from Proto-Germanic *juwunthiz by influence of its contrast, *dugunthiz "ability" (source of Old English duguð). In Middle English, the medial -g- became a yogh, which then disappeared.
- They said that age was truth, and that the youngMarred with wild hopes the peace of slavery[Shelley]
- noun person before the age of maturity
- noun early period in life of animate being
- The two youths jumped with all their strength to reach the departing galley.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- One of these youths, fancying himself a mimic, had imitated the Moslems.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
- The youths, gripping tightly their rifles and muskets, waited.
- Extract from : « The Dare Boys of 1776 » by Stephen Angus Cox
- Homer pictures the youths and the maidens pressing the vines together.
- Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
- Most of them were Shopton youths, but some, evidently, were strangers in town.
- Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton
- I turned to Menexenus, and said: Son of Demophon, which of you two youths is the elder?
- Extract from : « Lysis » by Plato
- But why, instead of consulting us, do you not consult our friend Socrates about the education of the youths?
- Extract from : « Laches » by Plato
- And are you ready to give assistance in the improvement of the youths?
- Extract from : « Laches » by Plato
- Let us then, regardless of what may be said of us, make the education of the youths our own education.
- Extract from : « Laches » by Plato
- Before him the stars, represented as youths, plunge into the water.
- Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
Synonyms for youths
- adolescence
- awkward age
- bloom
- boy
- boyhood
- chick
- childhood
- cub
- fledgling
- girl
- girlhood
- greenness
- ignorance
- immaturity
- inexperience
- innocence
- jejuneness
- jejunity
- junior
- juvenescence
- juvenile
- juvenile delinquent
- kid
- lad
- lass
- minority
- prime
- puberty
- pup
- pupil
- salad days
- springtide
- springtime of life
- student
- teenager
- teens
- tender age
- young person
- youngness
- youthfulness
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