{
    "term": "youth",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the time of life when a person is young, especially the time before a child becomes an adult",
            "sensetop": "in somebody's youth",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He had been a talented musician in his youth.",
                    "contextForm": "in somebody's youth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She regrets that she spent her youth travelling and not studying."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to relive/recapture your youth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He joked that being good at cards was the sign of **a misspent youth** *(= having wasted his time when he was young)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He played football throughout his youth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He started going clubbing in his early youth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wasted his youth in front of a computer screen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His lack of qualifications was taken as a sign of a misspent youth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I haven't danced since my youth!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She contracted the disease during her youth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She saw it as a chance to relive her misspent youth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She spent much of her youth in Hong Kong."
                },
                {
                    "text": "nostalgia for her lost youth"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["early", "lost", "misspent"],
                "verb + youth": ["spend", "recapture", "relive"],
                "preposition": ["during your youth", "from youth", "in your youth"],
                "phrases": ["not in the first flush of youth"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the quality or state of being young",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She brings to the job a rare combination of youth and experience."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His youth gives him an advantage over the other runners."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her extreme youth was against her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Though no longer in the first flush of youth she's still remarkably energetic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You still have your youth—that's the main thing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "from youth to maturity"
                },
                {
                    "text": "in search of eternal youth"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["comparative", "extreme", "eternal"],
                "verb + youth": ["have"],
                "phrases": ["the fountain of youth"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "young people considered as a group",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the nation’s youth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many people think the youth of today are not taught proper standards of behaviour."
                },
                {
                    "text": "training for **unemployed youth**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an increase in **youth unemployment**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "contemporary **youth culture**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **youth worker ***(= somebody who works with young people)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Youth and adults tend to see things very differently."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the aspirations of modern youth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "youth outreach programs run by the charity"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a program to educate our youth on the causes of health problems"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a crackdown on youth crime"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a club for the gilded youth of London"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The website targets unemployed youth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Royal Family is facing an uncertain future, according to the nation's youth."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["modern", "local", "inner-city"],
                "verb + youth": ["educate", "target", "corrupt"],
                "youth + noun": ["culture", "subculture", "centre/​center"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the country’s youth",
                    "the nation’s youth",
                    "the youth of today"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a young man",
            "labels": "(often disapproving)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The fight was started by a **gang of youths**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A 17-year-old youth has been arrested."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's going out with some spotty youth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was a callow youth when he joined the newspaper."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["male", "black", "white"],
                "… of youths": ["gang", "group"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/juːθ/",
                "audio": "yo/youth/youth__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/juːðz/",
                "audio": "yo/youth/youths__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/juːθ/",
                "audio": "yo/youth/youth__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/juːðz/",
                "audio": "yo/youth/youths__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English geoguth, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch jeugd, German Jugend, also to young."
}