Youth: Definition and part of speech

Youth

  1. n. Young persons, collectively.
  2. pl. of Youth
  3. n. The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.
  4. n. 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.
  5. n. A young person; especially, a young man.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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