Youth vs. Young

Youth and Young Definitions
Youth
The condition or quality of being young
Travel while you still have your youth.
Young
Being in an early period of life, development, or growth.
Youth
The time of life between childhood and maturity
He was rebellious in his youth.
Young
Newly begun or formed; not advanced
A young biotech company.
Youth
An early period of development or existence
A nation in its youth.
Young
Relating to, typical of, or suggestive of youth or early life
He is young for his age.
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Youth
A young person, especially a young male in late adolescence.
Young
Lacking experience; immature
A young hand at plowing.
Youth
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Young people considered as a group.
Young
Being the junior of two people having the same name.
Youth
(Geology) The first stage in the erosion cycle.
Young
(Geology) Being of an early stage in a geologic cycle. Used of bodies of water and land formations.
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Youth
(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.
Her youth and beauty attracted him to her.
Young
Young persons considered as a group; youth
Entertainment for the young.
Youth
(uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.
Make the most of your youth, it will not last forever.
I made many mistakes in my youth, but learned from them all.
Young
Offspring; brood
A lioness with her young.
Youth
(countable) A young person.
There was a group of youths hanging around the parking lot, reading fashion magazines and listening to music.
Young
In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
A lamb is a young sheep;
These picture books are for young readers
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Youth
(countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
Young
At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
The age of space travel is still young;
A young business
Youth
Young persons, collectively.
Young
(Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
How young is your dog?
Her grandmother turned 70 years young last month.
Youth
The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.
Such as in his faceYouth smiled celestial.
Young
Junior (of two related people with the same name).
Youth
The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.
He wondered that your lordshipWould suffer him to spend his youth at home.
Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly.
Young
(of a decade of life) Early.
Youth
A young person; especially, a young man.
Seven youths from Athens yearly sent.
Young
Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.
Youth
Young persons, collectively.
It is fit to read the best authors to youth first.
Young
Of or belonging to the early part of life.
The cynical world soon shattered my young dreams.
Youth
A young person (especially a young man or boy)
Young
(obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
Youth
Young people collectively;
Rock music appeals to the young
Youth everywhere rises in revolt
Young
(often as if a plural noun) Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.
The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.
The lion's young are curious about the world around them.
Youth
The time of life between childhood and maturity
Young
To become or seem to become younger.
Youth
Early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced
Young
To cause to appear younger.
Youth
An early period of development;
During the youth of the project
Young
(geology) To exhibit younging.
Youth
The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
Young
Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; - said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.
For he so young and tender was of age.
"Whom the gods love, die young," has been too long carelessly said; . . . whom the gods love, live young forever.
Young
Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.
While the fears of the people were young.
Young
Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.
Young
The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
[The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosedTheir callow young.
Young
Any immature animal
Young
United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
Young
United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
Young
British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
Young
United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
Young
English poet (1683-1765)
Young
United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
Young
United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)
Young
Young people collectively;
Rock music appeals to the young
Youth everywhere rises in revolt
Young
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth;
Young people
Young
(of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity;
New potatoes
Young corn