twentysomething

English

Alternative forms

• twenty-something, 20-something

Etymology

From twenty +‎ -something.

Noun

twentysomething (plural twentysomethings)

1. (informal) A person whose age is between twenty and twenty-nine years, inclusive; someone in their twenties.

   Synonym: vicenarian

   • 1990 July 16, David M. Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time‎^[1]:

     This is the twentysomething generation, those 48 million young Americans ages 18 through 29 who fall between the famous baby boomers and the boomlet of children the baby boomers are producing.

Translations

person aged between twenty and twenty-nine

• Czech: dvacátník m, dvacátnice f
• Dutch: twintiger (nl) n
• Esperanto: dudekjarulo, dudekkelkjarulo
• Finnish: kaksikymppinen
• French: (rare) vingtenaire (fr) m or f
• German: Twen (de) m; jemand in den Zwanzigern; (in context also) Zwanziger (de) m
• Hungarian: huszonéves (hu), húszas éveiben járó, huszonvalahány éves
• Polish: dwudziestolatek (pl), dwudziestolatka (pl)
• Portuguese: vicenário m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: dvadesetogodisnjak

• Spanish: veinteañero (es) m, veinteañera (es) f
• Tagalog: dalawampuin

Adjective

twentysomething (not comparable)

1. Aged between twenty and thirty.
   • 1993, Esther M. Berger with Connie Church Hasbun, “Introduction . . . Finances, Femininity, and Fear”, in Money Smart: Secrets Women Need to Know about Money Matters—from Saving to Planning to Investing, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published October 1994, →ISBN, page 25:

     You may feel as inexperienced as a twentysomething woman just starting out, but it’s not too late to make changes.

   • 2008 March 27, Deanna Uutela, “Sweet Dope”, in Ted Taylor, editor, Eugene Weekly, volume XXVII, number 13, Eugene, Ore.: What’s Happening Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32, column 4:

     The members of The Dope Show are pretty normal looking twentysomething guys and gals with nothing to prove.

   • 2025 February 7, Josie Ensor, “Meet Elon Musk’s ‘baby-faced assassins’ leading Doge takeover”, in The Times‎^[2]:

     Coristine is one of a team of teenage and twentysomething software engineers, apparently conscripted by Musk in his largely unchecked war against bureaucracy.

Translations

aged between twenty and twenty-nine

• Finnish: kaksikymppinen
• French: (rare) vingtenaire (fr)
• Spanish: veinteañero (es)

Numeral

twentysomething

1. Between twenty and thirty.

Translations

between twenty and twenty-nine

• Spanish: veintitantos

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• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} huszonéves (hu)
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 二十代 (ja) (nijūdai)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 이십대(二十代) (isipdae), 20대 (isipdae)
• Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} хорин настай (xorin nastaj), ^{(please verify)} хорин нас pl (xorin nas)
• Tajik: ^{(please verify)} бистсола (bistsola)