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Synonyms for youths

Grammar : Noun
Spell : yooth
Phonetic Transcription : yuθ

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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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