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

Later as a young adult, Chen worked as an assistant to an award-winning Hollywood director who not only loved horses but was an avid believer of the Chinese zodiac.

From Los Angeles Times

“The ones back there are children’s and young adult books. Fiction, nonfiction, novels and poetry, comics and graphic novels. Anything that I think you folks might enjoy.”

From Literature

Earlier last week, the OC Healthcare Agency confirmed a measles case in a young adult who recently traveled internationally.

From Los Angeles Times

As a young adult in the US, she immersed herself in books on the history of Africa before colonialism, particularly West Africa.

From BBC

As a young adult, Fern enjoyed what appeared to be a happy marriage to Charles “Handsome Charlie” Eldredge, a doting bank cashier, before tragedy struck, and struck again.

From The Wall Street Journal