youthとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /juːθ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /juθ/
• 韻: -uːθ

名詞

youth (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 youths)

1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being young.

   Her youth and beauty attracted him to her.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0045:

     Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

2. (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.

   Make the most of your youth, it will not last forever.

   I made many mistakes in my youth, but learned from them all.

   • 2013 January 1, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:

     Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

3. (countable) A young person.

   There was a group of youths hanging around the parking lot, reading fashion magazines and listening to music.

4. (countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 52, in The Moon and Sixpence‎^[1], OCLC 22207227:

     […] and then a youth appeared—no one quite knew where from or to whom he belonged—but he settled down with them in a happy-go-lucky way, and they all lived together.

5. (uncountable) (used in 複数形 form) Young persons, collectively.

同意語

• (quality または state of being young): juvenility, youthfulness
• (young person): adolescent, child, kid, lad, teen, teenager, youngster
• (young man): boy, young man
• (young persons, collectively): adolescents, kids, teenagers, teens, young people, youngsters

反意語

• (quality または state of being young): age, dotage, old age, senility
• (young person): adult, grown-up

派生語

関連する語

• young

アナグラム

• Tuohy

Further reading

• youth on Wikipedia.
• youth on Wikiquote.