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Youth vs. Youths

Youth

/juːθ/

The period of life when a person is young, especially the time before a child becomes an adult.

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Youth is full of energy and dreams.The youth of today are tomorrow's leaders.

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Youths

Young people, typically those in their teenage years or early adulthood

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Ways to tell them apart:

Youth is the singular form, referring to a young person or the quality of being young.
Youths is simply the plural form of youth, meaning more than one young person.
Youth can also be used to describe the early stage of development for something, not just people.
Remember that in some contexts, youth can imply a collective group without specifying plural, such as the youth of today.
When referring to individuals, youths specifies multiple young people.

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