# twentysomething

Pronunciation: say "TWEN-tee-sum-thing" /ˈtwɛntiˌsʌmθɪŋ/

## Noun

1. A person whose age falls between twenty and twenty-nine; someone in their twenties. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A person who is in their twenties, between twenty and twenty-nine years old.
   - _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._

## Adjective

2. Having an age that falls between twenty and thirty.
   - Simple: Being somewhere in your twenties, from the age of twenty to thirty.
   - _The startup's twentysomething staff worked late into the night._
   - _She joined a twentysomething crowd at the rooftop bar._

## Numeral

3. An unspecified number somewhere between twenty and thirty.
   - Simple: Some number from twenty to twenty-nine, used when you don't know the exact one.
   - _She'd read twentysomething novels that summer and lost count._
   - _The crew counted twentysomething boxes still left to unload._

## Origin

Formed from twenty combined with the suffix -something.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/twentysomething (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).