youth : Idioms & Phrases


bloom of youth

  • noun the best time of youth
    bloom; salad days.
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Fountain of youth

  • noun a fountain described in folk tales as able to make people young again
    • Ponce de Leon discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth
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  • a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth.
Webster 1913

lautaro youth movement

  • noun a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths
    Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces; Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement.
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youth crusade

  • noun political or religious or social reform movement or agitation consisting chiefly of young people
    youth crusade.
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youth culture

  • noun young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture
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youth gang

  • noun a gang whose members are teenagers
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youth hostel

  • noun inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)
    student lodging; hostel.
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youth movement

  • noun political or religious or social reform movement or agitation consisting chiefly of young people
    youth crusade.
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youth subculture

  • noun a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre
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youth-on-age

  • noun vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk
    piggyback plant; pickaback plant; Tolmiea menziesii.
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