1. (n.) Plural of Youth.

2. (n.) The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.

3. (n.) The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.

4. (n.) A young person; especially, a young man.

5. (n.) Young persons, collectively.