twentysomething
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- adjective
- /ˈtwɛntiˌsʌmθɪŋ/
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veintañero
- A slender twentysomething woman with honey-colored hair stood in the doorway.
- a twentysomething woman
- twentysomething guys
- a twentysomething man
Examples
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He strolled near an irresistible blonde woman all decked out in twentysomething finery.
Fiction book (1995) -
Compare that to the "education" of a twentysomething Owie who borrowed tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars and squandered it on five years of partying while barely doing enough work to "earn" a degree in Angry Studies.
Blog text (9) -
One was a twentysomething mother.
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"Without a pause, a twentysomething male customer responded, 'Why?'
Fiction book (1996) -
"Drifters" features three twentysomething women having their first experience of the real world, making
Blog text (26) -
My name is Valerie; I am a twentysomething ambitious, globetrotting California girl who is passionate about travel, cultural arts, culinary, fashion, and tech.
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"He was comparing some genuine items with the counterfeit ones to show the potential customers how good they looked," Showalter says of the vendor, a twentysomething male who, ironically, is studying fashion design.
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From its youthful focus to its whimsical dialogue and twentysomething female protagonist, "Take This Waltz" initially feels like exactly the sort of film you'd expect to see from a fledgling actress-turned-director.
Blog text (34) -
Certainly, it was heady stuff for a twentysomething college dropout with little journalism experience.
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In 2012, Chris Hughes, a twentysomething tech millionaire, bought it from Peretz, promising to save it.
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Etymology
Twentysomething is made from the everyday words twenty and something, where something means 'some number' or 'not exact', so twentysomething describes being in the twenties, that is, between 20 and 29 years old.