| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations | | Section VI. Time | | 2. Time with reference to a particular Period |
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| 127. Youth. |
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| NOUN: | YOUTH; juvenility, juvenescence [rare]; juniority; infancy; babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood [archaic]; incunabula; minority, boyage [rare], immaturity, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom.
CRADLE, nursery, leading strings, pupilage [rare], puberty, pucelage.
FLOWER of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, prime of life, golden season of life; heyday of youth, school days; rising generation.
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| ADJECTIVE: | YOUNG, youthful, juvenile, juvenescent, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne [law], beardless, under age, in one’s teens, in statu pupillari [L.]; younger, junior; hebetic, unfledged, unripe.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm.—Gray
- Youth … the glad season of life.—Carlyle
- Si jeunesse savait! si vieillesse pouvait!—French proverb
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