Meanings
bright young people1
alternative Bright Young People
- capitalizedhistoricaloftenpluralplural onlySynonym 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 248Synonyms: bright young things
Bright Young People2
- pluralplural onlyAlternative letter-case form of bright young people.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of bright young things, a youth culture in 1920s London.
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