/juːθ/
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Translation
The time when a person is young, or a young person.
Word origin
From Old English geoguth, from the same root as young.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- geoguth
- English cognates
- young
Grammar
Gender
Pluralyouths
Examples
runner .
Here "youth" means the time when he was young.
.
Here it means young people as a group.
sixteen .
One young person can also be called a youth.
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