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| 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
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| Main Entry: | childhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of being young |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, babyhood, cradle, immaturity, infancy, juniority, juvenility, minority, nonage, nursery, puberty, pupilage, schooldays, teens, tender age, youth |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
| Main Entry: | prime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; spring |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, aurora, dawn, daybreak, dew, greenness, juvenility, morn, morning, opening, puberty, pubescence, springtime, start, sunrise, sunup, tender years, vitality, youth, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end |
| 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: | school age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the time when one attends compulsory school |
| Synonyms: | early years, juvenescence, juvenility, younger days, youth |
| 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
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Adolescence. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
-verbs
come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion; attain majority, assume the toga virilis; have cut one's eyeteeth, have sown one's wild oats.
-adjectives
adolescent, pubescent, of age; of full age, of ripe age; out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult; womanly, matronly; marriageable, nubile.
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| Antonyms: | age |
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