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say it: yooth
youth is a noun meaning "a young person (especially a young man or boy)". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a young person (especially a young man or boy)
the time of life between childhood and maturity
early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced
the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for youth come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.