young adult
English
editNoun
edityoung adult (plural young adults)
- A person who has achieved the age of majority but whose character and personality are still developing as they gain experience.
- Hypernym: adult
- Coordinate terms: adolescent, teenager; kid; middle-ager, older adult
- Near-synonym: emerging adult
- Young adult actress Annie Jay wrote a book called Stars in Your Eyes, Feet on the Ground giving career advice for young adult actors.
- (publishing) An adolescent; a reader of young adult writing (YA).
Usage notes
edit- This is a nebulous concept and no fixed ages can be sensibly assigned to the term. However:
- in psychology and medicine, age-ranges such as 18 to 40 or 15 to 30[1] are sometimes quoted.
- in publishing, young adult novels are aimed at adolescents with an age-range of 12 to 18, and young adult writers are authors of these books, not teenage aspiring authors.
Translations
editperson who has achieved the age of majority but whose character and personality are still developing as they gain experience
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See also
editAdjective
edityoung adult (comparative more young adult, superlative most young adult)
- (publishing) Pertaining to young adult writing.
- Young adult writer Jen Derbyshire just published her 50th paperback novel, the latest in an adventure series spanning fifteen years.
References
editFurther reading
edit- young adult on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- young adult fiction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia