| 单词 | youth |
| 释义 | youth (once / 46 pages) n If you're not a little kid anymore, but you're not really an adult yet, you can describe this period of your life as your youth. You can use the noun youth in several ways — you might refer to a kid as a youth, describe the group of teenagers hanging out downtown as youth, or talk about the time in your life when you were young and carefree as your youth. In all cases, youth comes from the Old English geoguth, which is closely related to the root of young: geong. WORD FAMILYyouth: youthful, youths+/young: younger, youngest, youngish, youngly, youngness, youth/younger: youngerly/youthful: youthfulest, youthfully, youthfulness USAGE EXAMPLESAdvocates say affordable, quality child care helps with youth development and enables more parents to hold jobs and attend school. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) The case is one of several that led to reviews of the state Division of Children, Youth and Families. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) Previously the Western Colorado Suicide Prevention Foundation offered up to eight sessions for youth with no insurance through its Bridges Program. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n a young person (especially a young man or boy) Syn|Hypo|Hyper spring chicken, young person, younker blade a dashing young man hobbledehoyan awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy pup, puppyan inexperienced young person pupil, school-age child, schoolchilda young person attending school (up through senior high school) slipa young and slender person boardera pupil who lives at school during term time day boardera schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home latchkey childa school-age child who is home without adult supervision for part of the day (especially after school until a parent returns home from work) schoolboya boy attending school juvenile, juvenile person a young person, not fully developed 2n young people collectively youth everywhere rises in revolt Syn|Ant|Hyper young aged, elderly people who are old collectively age bracket, age group, cohort a group of people having approximately the same age 3n the time of life between childhood and maturity Hyper time of life a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state 4n early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced Hyper matureness, maturity state of being mature; full development 5n an early period of development during the youth of the project Syn|Hyper early days period, period of time, time period an amount of time 6n the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person Syn|Hyper juvenility, youthfulness youngness the opposite of oldness |
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