youths
SayYOOTHZ/juːðz/
- 1Plural of youth.
Local youths gathered in the square to watch the parade.
The coach trained a dozen youths for the regional tournament.
Note
Only the countable meanings of youth take a plural: a young person, or more narrowly a young man or male adolescent. The quality of being young and the stretch of life before adulthood stay singular, and so does the collective use. The youth of a town are its young people taken as a group; the youths of a town are separate individuals, and the word can lean toward young men.
youths is a form of youth
youth, noun: Young people considered collectively, especially as a group within a society. Full entry
- Forms
- youthyouths plural
- Spelling
- youth → youths: add -s
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