| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  y th |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. youths (yths, ythz)
1a. The condition or quality of being young. b. An early period of development or existence: a nation in its youth. 2. The time of life between childhood and maturity. 3a. A young person, especially a young male in late adolescence. b. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Young people considered as a group. 4. Geology The first stage in the erosion cycle. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English youthe, from Old English geoguth. See yeu- in Appendix I.
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