Entry Word: youth

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a male person who has not yet reached adulthood <a big, strapping youth who even at his relatively young age knew the meaning of hard work> — see boy
2 a young person who is between infancy and adulthood <rounded up the neighborhood youths and formed them into a softball team> — see child 1
3 the state or time of being a child <told the young people to enjoy their youth while they could> — see childhood