Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Youth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being a youth; the period of youth.
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- noun The state of being
young , either in age or in spirit;youth
Etymologies
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The sociologists, psychologists, economists and others who study this age group have many names for this new phase of life - "youthhood," "adultescence" - and they call people in their
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The sociologists, psychologists, economists and others who study this age group have many names for this new phase of life - "youthhood," "adultescence" - and they call people in their
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The sociologists, psychologists, economists and others who study this age group have many names for this new phase of life - "youthhood," "adultescence" - and they call people in their
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And more than hope: an exhaustless store of certainty, vision, belief-which came to me first in the time of my youthhood, the Depression '30s.
The '30S 2008
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Long-term, when youth step into youthhood in our churches, they need to have resources ready for them -- and those resources need to be genuinely present for their benefit, and not ultimately because it is their job to be there or because they have institutional goals of their own.
Philocrites: Sinkford: Continental YRUU will be replaced. 2008
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In a 2005 cover story on the phenomenon, Time magazine labeled these young people “Twixters”; others label this new area between adolescence and adulthood “youthhood” or “adultesence.”
Generation Me Ph.D. Jean M. Twenge 2006
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In a 2005 cover story on the phenomenon, Time magazine labeled these young people “Twixters”; others label this new area between adolescence and adulthood “youthhood” or “adultesence.”
Generation Me Ph.D. Jean M. Twenge 2006
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Daphnis became to him the embodiment, the concrete image, of eternal youthhood, of adolescence in the abstract, the attribute of an idealised humanity.
Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour
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In early youthhood Monroe received a good education, but left school to join the army and soon after was commissioned a lieutenant.
Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis
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"The childhood of history is best for the child, the boyhood of history for the boy, the youthhood of history for the youth, and the manhood of history for the man."
A Guide to Methods and Observation in History Studies in High School Observation Calvin Olin Davis
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