Youth

Definition

youth /ju:θ/ n ( pl youths /ju:ðz/) ၁။ [U] ပ်ဳိရြယ္ခ်ိန္။ I often went there in my youth. ❍ He painted scenes from his youth (ie ones that he remembered from the time when he was young). ❍ He is no longer in the first flush of youth. Compare AGE 1 ၂ ၂။ [U] ( fml ) ပ်ဳိမ်စ္ျခင္း။ Her youth gives her an advantage over the other runners. ❍ She is full of youth and vitality. Compare AGE 1 ၂ ၃။ [C] ( often derog ) လူငယ္။ The fight was started by some youths who had been drinking. ၄။ (also the youth ) [pl v ] လူငယ္(ထု)။ the country's youth ❍ the youth of today ❍ youth training schemes. ❏ youth club n လူငယ္ကလပ္အသင္း။ ❏ youthful /-fl/ adj ငယ္ရြယ္ေသာ။ ပ်ဳိမ်စ္ေသာ။ a youthful managing director ❍ a youthful appearance ❍ She's a very youthful sixty-five. youthfully /-fǝli/ adv youthfulness n [U] ❏ youth hostel n လူငယ္ေဆာင္။ ❏ youth hostelling n [U] အားလပ္ရက္တြင္ လူငယ္ေဆာင္ တစ္ခုမွတစ္ခုသို႔ လည္ပတ္ျခင္း။ go youth hostelling.

Examples

1. In his youth
2. he had travelled and seen much of the world.
3. The energy/enthusiasm/innocence of youth
4. [relive/recapture your youth] : The visit was more than just a chance to relive her youth.
5. [misspent youth] : Adults who choose to go to college in later life are perhaps making up for a misspent youth.
6. A gang of youths
7. Sport provides a way for the nation’s youth to express themselves.
8. Youth culture/unemployment/training