young adult
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]young adult (plural young adults)
- (often attributive) A person who has achieved the age of majority but whose character and personality are still developing as they gain experience.
- Synonym: YA
- Hypernym: adult
- Hyponyms: young man, young lady
- Coordinate terms: adolescent, teenager; kid; middle-ager, older adult
- Near-synonyms: AYA; 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, often attributive, sometimes capitalized) An adolescent; a genre of writing aimed primarily at this readership.
- Synonym: YA
- My favorite young adult writer, Jen Derbyshire, just published her 50th paperback novel, the latest in an adventure series spanning fifteen years.
- Emily said to shelve these books in Young Adult and to make a table display with some of them.
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
[edit]person who has achieved the age of majority but whose character and personality are still developing as they gain experience
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References
[edit]Further reading
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young adult on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - young adult fiction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
