youthとは

意味・読み方・使い方

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.

   Synonyms: juvenility, youngness, (古風な用法) youngth, youthfulness

   Antonyms: age, dotage, old age, senility

   Her youth and beauty attracted him to her.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, “The Purchase Price”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:

     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.

   • 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.

   • 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.

   Synonyms: adolescent, child, kid, lad, teen, teenager, youngster

   Antonyms: adult, grown-up

   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.

   Synonyms: boy, young man

   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LII, in The Moon and Sixpence. A Novel, London: William Heinemann, OCLC 563525353, pages 274–275; The Moon and Sixpence, 1st American edition, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers by arrangement with George H. Doran Company, 1919, OCLC 365836:

     […] 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 with a 複数形 または 単数形 verb) Young persons, collectively.

   Synonyms: adolescents, kids, teenagers, teens, young people, youngsters

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