twentysomething

Pluraltwentysomethings

1. 1
   nouncolloquialcountable

   A person whose age falls between twenty and twenty-nine; someone in their twenties.

   The café was full of twentysomethings hunched over their laptops.

   As a twentysomething, he felt too old for dorm parties but too young to settle down.

2. 2
   adjective

   Having an age that falls between twenty and thirty.

   The startup's twentysomething staff worked late into the night.

   She joined a twentysomething crowd at the rooftop bar.

3. 3
   numeral

   An unspecified number somewhere between twenty and thirty.

   She'd read twentysomething novels that summer and lost count.

   The crew counted twentysomething boxes still left to unload.

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