YOUTH
What does "YOUTH" mean?
The period of life between childhood and adulthood; the quality of being young.
Meanings
- The time of life when one is young; early life. He spent his youth on a farm in the mountains.
- Young people considered as a group. The program aims to keep local youth out of trouble.
- A young person, especially a young man. A youth in a red cap held the gate open. formal
- The freshness, vigor, or energy associated with being young. There was a youth in her step that the years never took. figurative
Did you know?
- 'Youth' and 'young' are the same word wearing different endings - both trace to the Old English root 'geong', the abstract noun simply kept the older spelling longer.
Word origin
From Old English 'geoguð' (youth, young people), from the same Germanic root as 'young'; the medial g softened over centuries into the modern 'th' sound.
Remember it
YOUTH is YOU plus TH: it's the version of YOU that the years are still working on.
A little poem
We had no clocks then-
the long afternoons just lay
down like summer dogs.
haiku
Wordplay
- Youth is wasted on the young - mostly because nobody hands them the receipt until much later.
What it teaches
Youth is the one fortune we spend before we learn it was a fortune.
Quick facts
What does YOUTH mean?
The period of life between childhood and adulthood; the quality of being young.
Is YOUTH a valid word?
Yes — YOUTH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is YOUTH?
YOUTH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does YOUTH come from?
From Old English 'geoguð' (youth, young people), from the same Germanic root as 'young'; the medial g softened over centuries into the modern 'th' sound.
What can YOUTH teach us?
Youth is the one fortune we spend before we learn it was a fortune.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.