youth

Từ điển Việt Anh Việt 4in1 - English Vietnamese 4 in 1 Dictionary

youth S2 W2 /juːθ/ BrE AmE noun (plural youths /juːðz $ juːðz, juːθs/)
[Word Family: noun: ↑young, ↑youngster, ↑youth, ↑youthfulness; adjective: ↑young, ↑youthful; adverb: ↑youthfully]
[Language: Old English; Origin: geoguth]
1. [uncountable] the period of time when someone is young, especially the period when someone is a teenager ⇨ old age
in sb’s youth
Many of these people had used drugs in their youth.
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In everyday English, people usually say when I was young, rather than saying in my youth:
▪ They were friends when they were young.
2. [countable] a teenage boy – used especially in newspapers to show disapproval:
a gang of youths
3. [uncountable] young people in general
the youth of something
The youth of today are the pensioners of tomorrow.
4. [uncountable] the quality or state of being young OPP age:
Despite his youth, he had travelled alone.
The cream will restore youth and vitality to your skin.
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COLLOCATIONS
verbs
▪ spend your youth She spent her youth in India.
▪ relive/recapture your youth (=do things you did when young, to try and experience youth again) The band’s fans are clearly reliving their youth. | The sports car is an attempt to recapture his youth.
phrases
▪ a misspent youth (=spent doing things that were bad or not useful) He is trying to make up for his misspent youth.
▪ your lost youth (=the time long ago when you were young) He wept for his lost youth.
▪ the days/dreams/friends etc of sb’s youth He had long ago forgotten the dreams of his youth.

youthhu

◎	[ju:θ]
※	danh từ
	■	thời kỳ đang trẻ (nhất là khoảng giữa thời thơ ấu và lúc trưởng thành); thời thanh niên; tuổi trẻ
		☆	a wasted youth
			một thời thanhniên uổng phí
		☆	I often went there in my youth
			thời trẻ tôi thường đi đến đó
		☆	the enthusiasm of youth
			nhiệt tình của tuổi trẻ
		☆	her youth gives her an advantage over the other runners
			tuổi trẻ làm cho cô ấy có ưu thế hơn những tay đua khác
		☆	she's full of youth and vitality
			cô ấy tràn trề tuổi xuân và sức sống
		☆	the youth of civilization
			buổi ban đầu của nền văn minh
	■	tầng lớp thanh niên; lứa tuổi thanh niên; (nói chung) thanh niên (cũng) the youth
		☆	the youth of the country/the country's youth
			thanh niên của đất nước
		☆	the youth of today has/have greater opportunities than ever before
			lớp trẻ/giới trẻ ngày nay có những cơ hội lớn hơn bao giờ hết so với trước đây
		☆	youth club
			câu lạc bộ thanh niên
		☆	youth hostelling
			sự nghỉ ngơi ở nhà trọ thanh niên
		☆	The Communist Youth League
			Đoàn thanh niên cộng sản
		☆	The Ho Chi Minh Labour Youth Union
			Đoàn thanh niên lao động Hồ Chí Minh
	■	chàng trai trẻ; chàng thanh niên
		☆	a bevy of youths
			một đám thanh niên
		☆	the fight was started by some youths who had been drinking
			cuộc ẩu đả xảy ra là do mấy thanh niên say rượu

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  youthfulness, juvenility, early days, young, young person, younker, spring chicken
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  aged, elderly