bright young people
bright young people noun: synonym of bright young things, a youth culture in 1920s London.
Noun (1)
bright young people pl (plural only)
- Synonym of bright young things, a youth culture in 1920s London.
- Like the American collegians, the Bright Young People stoked the media's new obsession with youth. They were the first British youth culture to be defined in aspirational terms, as they heralded the application of adolescence as an ideal beyond biology.2007, Jon Savage, Teenage, Viking, →ISBN, page 248
- Synonyms:
- bright young things
Noun (2) capitalized: Bright Young People
Bright Young People pl (plural only)
- Alternative letter-case form of bright young people.
Synonyms of bright young people
Forms of bright young people
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Questions about bright young people
- What does bright young people mean?
- Bright young people means synonym of bright young things, a youth culture in 1920s London.
- What part of speech is bright young people?
- Bright young people is a noun.
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