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Narrator: Today's word is "Youth" — noun, pronounced /juːθ/, with the stress on "youth".
Narrator: Youth is the period of life when someone is young, or young people in general.
Narrator: In plain English, it is being young.
Narrator: It comes from Old English geoguth.
Narrator: A common collocation is "youth club", which describes a place for teenagers to meet.
Narrator: It differs from "childhood", because youth usually means the teenage years and early adulthood.
Narrator: In a second sense, "a youth" can mean a young man, often in news reports.
Narrator: Education, sport, social work and politics all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: youth is the springtime of life.
Speaker A: Where does your brother go on Fridays?
Speaker B: The YOUTH club! From Old English geoguth.
Speaker A: Table tennis?
Speaker B: And pizza.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "In his youth he played football", memories. "Youth unemployment fell", economics. "The youth team won", sport.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Youth can be uncountable, "the youth of today", or countable, "three youths".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Adolescence is its cousin, teenage years its twin, and young people an alternative — yet youth keeps its lively charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "youth" in AI prompts — useful for charities and sports clubs.
Speaker A: How for charities?
Speaker B: Funding bids.
Prompt: Write a funding bid summary for a youth mentoring project.
Speaker A: And sport?
Speaker B: Squads.
Prompt: Build a youth team registration form with age groups.
Speaker A: Could it help policy?
Speaker B: Yes, for data.
Prompt: Summarise youth unemployment trends from this data.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Safeguarding.
Prompt: Write a youth club safeguarding checklist for volunteers.
Youth — meaning in Arabic & definition More Y courses GL Dictionary