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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, childhood, juniority, schoolboy days, teens, young manhood |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
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| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of animate existence |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, adulthood, boyhood, childhood, dotage, elderliness, girlhood, infancy, life, lifetime, majority, maturity, middle age, milestone, old age, senility, seniority, wear and tear, youth |
| Notes: | epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time |
| Main Entry: | puberty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young adulthood |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward stage, boyhood, girlhood, greenness, high-school years, juvenescence, juvenility, potency, preadolescence, pubescence, spring*, springtide, springtime, teenage years, teens, youth, youthfulness |
| Notes: | adolescence is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood; puberty is the time of sexual development |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | adulthood, maturity |
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, juvenility, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | juvenescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom*, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenility, minority, prime*, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | juvenility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom*, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, minority, prime*, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, ancestral, anicular, anile, annotinous, annuated, antiquated, ayne, declining, decrepit, doited, effete, eigne, elder, eldest, epigonous, first, gerocomical, gray, gray, hoar, hoary, in years, insenescible, juvenescent, marked with a crow's foot, matronly, mellow, no chicken, of a certain age, old, old as Methuselah, older, oldest, past one's prime, patriarchal, quadragenarious, ripe, run to seed, senescent, senile, senior, silurian, stricken in years, superannuated, time, venerable, waning, wrinkled, years old
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| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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