Teenager vs Youth - What's the difference?
teenager | youth | Synonyms |
(countable) Literally, a person from thirteen'' to nine''teen who is in their teens; an adolescent.
(lb) The quality or state of being young.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
(lb) 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 manhood.
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, volume=101, issue=1, page=62, magazine=(American Scientist)
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(lb) A young man.
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*:and then a youth appeared—no one quite knew where from or to whom he belonged—but he settled down with them in a happy-go-lucky way, and they all lived together.
(lb) (used in plural form ) Young persons, collectively.
Youth is a synonym of teenager.
In countable terms the difference between teenager and youth
is that teenager is literally, a person from thirteen to nineteen who is in their teens; an adolescent while youth is a young man.teenager
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(Adolescence)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Sometimes only refers up to the legal minor limit in many countries of eighteen years old, or sometimes only refers up to the point of high school graduation. In the earlier years, sometimes referred to as a youth; in later years, sometimes referred to as a young adult.Anagrams
* ----youth
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(wikipedia youth)Noun
Father of Fractals, passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}
