Kid vs. Youth — What's the Difference?

A young goat.

Youth is the time of life when one is young, and often means the time between childhood and adulthood (maturity). It is also defined as "the appearance, freshness, vigor, spirit, etc., characteristic of one who is young".

One of the young of certain similar animals.

The period between childhood and adult age

The flesh of a young goat.

A young man

Leather made from the skin of a young goat; kidskin.

The condition or quality of being young

An article made from this leather.

The time of life between childhood and maturity

A child.

An early period of development or existence

A young person.

A young person, especially a young male in late adolescence.

(Slang)Pal. Used as a term of familiar address, especially for a young person

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Young people considered as a group.

Made of the skin or with the meat of a young goat.

(Geology) The first stage in the erosion cycle.

(Informal)Younger than oneself

(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.

To mock playfully; tease

(uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.

To deceive in fun; fool

(countable) A young person.

To deceive (oneself), especially by allowing one's desires to cloud one's judgment

(countable) A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.

To engage in teasing or good-humored fooling

Young persons, collectively.

To bear young. Used of a goat or similar animal.

The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.

A young goat.

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.

Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.

A young person; especially, a young man.

Kidskin.

Young persons, collectively.

(uncountable) The meat of a young goat.

A young person (especially a young man or boy)

A young antelope.

Young people collectively;

(informal) A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.

The time of life between childhood and maturity

(informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.

Early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced

(informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.

An early period of development;

(in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.

The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

(colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.

(dated) A deception; an act of kidding somebody.

(nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.

A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

To make a fool of (someone).

To dupe or deceive (someone).

To make a joke with (someone).

(intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth.

To joke.

A young goat.

A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on.

A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.

Gloves made of kid.

A small wooden mess tub; - a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.

Among pugilists, thieves, gunfighters, etc., a youthful expert; - chiefly used attributively; as, kid Jones.

A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

To bring forth a young goat.

Of Kythe.

A young person of either sex;

Soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat;

English dramatist (1558-1594)

A human offspring (son or daughter) of any age;

Young goat

Tell false information to for fun;

Be silly or tease one another;