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Youth

/juːθ/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #350 frequency
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  1. 1

    The period between childhood and adult age.

    "She spent her youth traveling around the world."

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Derived from Old English 'gēoguð', ultimately stemming from Proto-Germanic '*juguðiz', meaning young people or the period of being young. Cognates include German 'Jugend' and Dutch 'jeugd', tracking the evolutionary semantic shift from an abstract state of early life to a collective representation of young individuals.

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