young adult

American  

noun

1. a teenager (used especially by publishers and librarians).

2. a person in the early years of adulthood.

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Example Sentences

The “young adult” pass will cost $869, compared with $1,089 for an adult pass.

From The Wall Street Journal

The other, “Young Sherlock,” from Arthur Conan Doyle via a series of young adult novels by Andrew Lane, imagines Holmes at 19 — and is therefore not strictly a private detective show, though the character he’ll grow up to be will set the pattern for those to follow.

From Los Angeles Times

Annabelle Chang opened the first young adult bookstore in the country when she was 16.

From Los Angeles Times

Instead, it shows that traditional campus structures are falling behind digital alternatives in the face of the social anxiety of the 21st-century young adult.

From The Wall Street Journal

Shelley, who lives with Noah and his father in Chepstow, said she'd had conversations with her son that "no parent should have" - and even though he's a young adult, she'd never want him to have to end his life abroad.

From BBC