youth
noun/juːθ/
(plural youths
/juːðz/
)Слово англійською: youth
Переклад youth українською: молодь
Детальний опис
- [uncountable] the time of life when a person is young, especially the time before a child becomes an adult
- in somebody's youth He had been a talented musician in his youth.
- She regrets that she spent her youth travelling and not studying.
- to relive/recapture your youth
- He joked that being good at cards was the sign of a misspent youth (= having wasted his time when he was young).
- [uncountable] the quality or state of being young
- She brings to the job a rare combination of youth and experience.
- His youth gives him an advantage over the other runners.
- (also the youth)[plural] young people considered as a group
- the nation’s youth
- Many people think the youth of today are not taught proper standards of behaviour.
- training for unemployed youth
- an increase in youth unemployment
- contemporary youth culture
- a youth worker (= somebody who works with young people)
- Youth and adults tend to see things very differently.
- [countable] (often disapproving) a young man
- The fight was started by a gang of youths.
Word OriginOld English geoguth, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch jeugd, German Jugend, also to young.