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Synonyms of youth in English:

youth


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noun

1‘he had been a keen sportsman in his youth’

SYNONYMS
early years, early life, young days, teens, teenage years, adolescence, preadolescence, young adulthood, boyhood, girlhood, childhood
immaturity
prime, heyday, day, hour, time, springtime, salad days, bloom, peak, pinnacle, height
Law minority
rare juvenility, juvenescence
ANTONYMS

adulthood, old age

2‘she had kept her youth and beauty’

SYNONYMS
youthfulness, youngness, freshness, bloom
ANTONYMS

maturity

3‘the problem of unemployment among local youths’

SYNONYMS
young man, boy, lad, youngster, juvenile, teenager, adolescent, junior, minor, young one
stripling, whippersnapper, fledgling
Scottish, Northern English bairn
informal kid, chav, hoodie, teen, shaver
ANTONYMS

old man

4‘the youth of the nation are looking for a hero’

SYNONYMS
young people, young, younger generation, rising generation, next generation
informal kids
ANTONYMS

elderly