ADJ
- early
- unhappy
- lost
- nostalgia for her lost youth
- misspent
- His lack of qualifications was taken as a sign of a misspent youth
VERB + YOUTH
- spend
- She spent much of her youth in Hong Kong
- idle away, waste
- He wasted his youth in front of a computer screen
PREP
- during your ~
- She contracted the disease during her youth
- from ~
- from youth to maturity
- in your ~
- He started going to discos in his early youth
- since your ~
- I haven't danced since my youth!
- throughout your ~
- He played football throughout his youth
PHRASES
- not in the first flush of youth
- Though no longer in the first flush of youth she's still remarkably energetic
- scenes from/of sb's youth
ADJ
- extreme
- Her extreme youth was against her
- comparative
- eternal
- in search of eternal youth
VERB + YOUTH
- have
- You still have your youth?that's the main thing
ADJ
- male
- black, white
- callow
- He was a callow youth when he joined the newspaper
- pimply, spotty
- She's going out with some spotty youth
- fresh-faced
- gangling
ADJ
- modern
- the aspirations of modern youth
- local
- urban
- working-class
- delinquent, disaffected
- unemployed
- educated
- gilded (figurative)
- a club for the gilded youth (= rich and spoilt young people) of London
YOUTH + NOUN
- culture
- club, group, movement, organization, subculture, work
- leader, worker
- employment, unemployment, training
- court, crime, custody
- a crackdown on youth crime