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Plural of youth

regular plural

The plural of youth is youths.

Forms of youth

Singularyouth /juːθ/
Pluralyouths /juːðz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Youths in a sentence

  • There was a group of youths hanging around the parking lot, reading fashion magazines and listening to music.
  • Those three young men are particularly callow youths.From the entry callow
  • The Northern youths did not agitate for the sack of previous Defence Ministers.2026 March 15, Ejikeme Omenazu, “Anxiety Returns Over Upsurge Of Ferocious Banditry”, in Independent. From the entry ridiculous
  • None of the youths – ages 16 to 26 – appeared to flinch.2007 November 1, “Trial by ordeal makes the guilty burn but ‘undermines justice’”, in IRIN, archived from the original on 06 May 2017. From the entry sassywood
  • Through Pyon JDSN, whose love for the young souls is ardent, our youths' souls will be revived.2003, Manwoo A. Kim, New Morning of the Pasture: Poetic Reflections of a Korean American Pastor, Hermit Kingdom Press, published 2003…. From the entry JDSN

Meaning of youth

  1. noun The quality or state of being young.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A young person.

Full definition of youth

Questions about the plural of youth

What is the plural of youth?
The plural of youth is youths.
Is youth countable?
Youth is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: youth (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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