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Youth   /juθ/   Listen
noun
Youth  n.  (pl. youths or collectively youth)  
1.
The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. "In my flower of youth." "Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial."
2.
The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood. "He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home." "Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly."
3.
A young person; especially, a young man. "Seven youths from Athens yearly sent."
4.
Young persons, collectively. "It is fit to read the best authors to youth first."





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"Youth" Quotes from Famous Books



... and youth delight me; yet I think you make but a bad use of them, when you destine them to a triste house in a country solitude. If you were condemned to retirement, It would be fortunate to have spirits ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
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... these valiant dead, And with your puissant arm renew their feats: You are their heir; you sit upon their throne; The blood and courage, that renowned them, Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege Is in the very May-morn of his youth, Ripe for exploits ...
— King Henry the Fifth - Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre • William Shakespeare
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... my heart ever urges my spirit to wander, To seek out the home of the stranger in lands afar off. There is no one that dwells on earth so exalted in mind, So large in his bounty, nor yet of such vigorous youth, Nor so daring in deeds, nor to whom his liege lord is so kind, But that he has always a longing, a sea-faring passion For what the Lord God shall bestow, be it honour or death. No heart for the harp has he, nor for acceptance of ...
— Flag and Fleet - How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas • William Wood
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... the French troops, who by the treaty concluded at Florence, on terms ignominious for Naples, occupied several Neapolitan provinces, the patriot party again began to conspire against Ferdinand, and in their machinations Pepe, in spite of his youth, soon took a prominent share. His aversion to the Neapolitan Bourbons was only equalled by the indignation with which he saw his native land garrisoned by foreigners, feeding upon its fatness. Murat, who at first had viewed him with favour, soon looked upon him as a dangerous ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCLXXVI. February, 1847. Vol. LXI. • Various
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... grief; Of this Antonia was an instance. Aided by her youth and healthy constitution, She shook off the malady which her Mother's death had occasioned; But it was not so easy to remove the disease of her mind. Her eyes were constantly filled with tears: Every trifle affected her, and She ...
— The Monk; a romance • M. G. Lewis
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