youth group

noun

1. an organization of young people, as for social purposes, usually under the sponsorship of a church, political organization, or the like.

Word History and Origins

Origin of youth group¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Jaiden Stipp was watching a Star Wars movie at his afternoon youth group in Tacoma, Washington, last March when the bids started coming in.

From Time

Patriarch Russ Hildebrandt is an associate pastor navigating a crush on a new parishioner, a running feud with the too-charming youth group leader and a marriage that lost its spark sometime after the kids were born.

From Time

It would provide local youth groups with air, earth, and water quality monitoring tools and teach them how to gather and record data on the environmental changes they’ve observed in their communities.

From Time

You got Miles Davis in the wings, James Brown performing and the money going to my youth group, and James Brown come on stage in support of my youth group.

From Ozy

That youth group was a key part of protests against Mubarak.

From The Daily Beast

Then in 2007 he had joined the pro-Kremlin, pro “Eurasian” youth group, Nashi, to hone his militancy.

From The Daily Beast

Carlo remembers when a teenage Sarai met her husband at a church youth group.

From The Daily Beast

Rather than the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB, most observers blamed a pro-government youth group.

From The Daily Beast

After graduating from high school, Bachmann went to Israel with the evangelical youth group Young Life.

From The Daily Beast

She referred rather disparagingly to some of the young Communist youth group people.

From Project Gutenberg