- youth
- n1. childhood, early life, salad days, boyhood, girlhood; adolescence, teens, teenage, teen years, pubescence; minority, nonage; heyday, springtime of life, bloom or flower of life, golden season of life, day-spring of life; immaturity, growing time, growing up; juniority, pupilage, wardship.2. girlishness, boyishness, youthfulness, puerility, juvenescence, juvenility; freshness, vigor, light-heartedness.3. adolescent, teenager, teen, juvenile, minor; youngster, youngling, young one, child, Sl. spring chicken; girl, schoolgirl, lass, lassie, mademoiselle, maiden, maid, slip, sprite, sprig; boy, schoolboy, young man, (in ancient Greece) ephebe, scion, lad, junior, cadet, stripling, fledgling, sapling, whelp, whippersnapper; puppy, cub, kitten, chit, chick, Inf. small fry, Inf. shaver, tyke, Inf. kid.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.