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young-adulthood

young-adulthood is the alternative form of young adulthood.

Meaning of young adulthood

Noun

young adulthood (countable and uncountable, plural young adulthoods)

  1. The state or period of being a young adult.
    • Making the transition from adolescence into young adulthood can be challenging, and it could also come with some health risks.2011 December 16, Jeannine Stein, “Exercise drops off when teens transition to college, study finds”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Forms of young-adulthood

pluralyoung-adulthoods

Questions about young-adulthood

What is young-adulthood the alternative form of?
Young-adulthood is the alternative form of young adulthood.

Words near young-adulthood in the dictionary

  1. Young's syndrome
  2. young'un
  3. young'uns
  4. young, dumb, and full of come
  5. young, dumb, and full of cum
  6. young-adulthood
  7. young-adulthoods
  8. young-earth creationism
  9. Young-Earther
  10. Young-Earthers
  11. young-hearted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: young-adulthood (page history and authors); young adulthood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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