Youth

n. pl. Youths (ūths; 264) or collectively Youth.

1. The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.
2. 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.
3. A young person; especially, a young man.
4. Young persons, collectively.