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youngest
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?j????st/
Adjective
youngest
- superlative form of young: most young
- Most recently begun or formed.
- I may be the youngest in my family but I still resent being referred to as the baby.
- (card games) Receiving dealt cards last, i.e. immediately before the next deal to the eldest.
Translations
Noun
youngest (plural youngests)
- The youngest child in a family, or individual in a group.
Translations
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youth
English
Etymology
From Middle English youthe, youhthe, ?outhe, ?ewethe, ?u?ethe, ?eo?uthe, from Old English ?eoguþ (“the state of being young; youth”), from West Germanic *juwunþa, from Proto-Germanic *jugunþ?, *jugunþiz (“youth”), corresponding to young +? -th. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Juugd, West Frisian jeugd, Dutch jeugd, German Low German Jöögd, German Jugend.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ju??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ju?/
- Rhymes: -u??
Noun
youth (countable and uncountable, plural youths)
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being young.
- Synonyms: juvenility, youngness, (archaic) youngth, youthfulness
- Antonyms: age, dotage, old age, senility
- (uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 49:
- I don't find the pose of careless youth charming and engaging any more than you find the pose of careworn age fascinating and eccentric, I should imagine.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 49:
- (countable) A young person.
- Synonyms: adolescent, child, kid, lad, teen, teenager, youngster
- Antonyms: adult, grown-up
- (countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
- Synonyms: boy, young man
- (uncountable, used with a plural or singular verb) Young persons, collectively.
- Synonyms: adolescents, kids, teenagers, teens, young people, youngsters
Derived terms
Related terms
- young
Translations
References
- youth at OneLook Dictionary Search
- youth in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- youth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Further reading
- youth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- youth on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
Anagrams
- Tuohy
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