young adult

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noun

a teenager (used especially by publishers and librarians).

a person in the early years of adulthood.

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RELATED WORDS

adolescent, junior, juvenile, minor, youngster, pubescent, teenybopper

Nearby words

you-all, you-uns, youghiogheny, youlou, young, young adult, young at heart, young blood, young fogey, young fustic, young gun

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Examples from the Web for young adult

What do you look for in a great first line/first page/first chapter of a young-adult novel?
How We Write (Husband and Wife Edition): Lemony Snicket and Lisa Brown|Noah Charney|January 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
No one asked the deeper question: why is abstinence the only theologically credible approach to young-adult sexuality?
Evangelicals Struggle to Address Premarital Sex and Abortion|David Sessions|July 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines By Nic Sheff Tweak is a modern memoir of adolescent and young-adult drug addiction.
11 Books of Drug-Fueled Escapades|Brian H. Bookman|June 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST
You have written memoirs, humorous essays, fiction, and now young-adult fiction.
Jennifer Finney Boylan’s ‘How I Write’ Interview|Noah Charney|June 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST

In young-adult literature, women have kicked him aside, with Twilight and The Hunger Games setting the tone.
The End of the White Outsider|Ned Vizzini|July 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST