"twentysomething" meaning in All languages combined

See twentysomething on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: twentysomethings [plural]
Etymology: From twenty + -something. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|twenty|something}} twenty + -something Head templates: {{en-noun}} twentysomething (plural twentysomethings)
  1. (informal) A person whose age is between twenty and twenty-nine years, inclusive; someone in their twenties. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Age, Twenty Synonyms: vicenarian Translations (aged between twenty and twenty-nine): dvacátník [masculine] (Czech), dvacátnice [feminine] (Czech), twintiger [neuter] (Dutch), kaksikymppinen (Finnish), vingtenaire [feminine, masculine, rare] (French), Twen [masculine] (German), huszonéves (Hungarian), 二十代 (nijūdai) (Japanese), 20대 (isipdae) (Korean), veintitantos [masculine] (Spanish), veinteañero [masculine] (Spanish), veinteañera [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-twentysomething-en-noun-KSzPCHH1 Disambiguation of Age: 70 30 Disambiguation of Twenty: 57 43 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -something, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 86 14 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -something: 83 17 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 96 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 94 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 92 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 92 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 94 6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: twenty-something, 20-something

Numeral [English]

Etymology: From twenty + -something. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|twenty|something}} twenty + -something Head templates: {{head|en|numeral}} twentysomething
  1. Between twenty and thirty. Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-twentysomething-en-num-8ndNRzVa Disambiguation of People: 17 83
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: twenty-something, 20-something

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "twenty",
        "3": "something"
      },
      "expansion": "twenty + -something",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From twenty + -something.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "twentysomethings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "twentysomething (plural twentysomethings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -something",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Czech translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Korean translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Age",
          "orig": "en:Age",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Twenty",
          "orig": "en:Twenty",
          "parents": [
            "Numbers",
            "All topics",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990 July 16, David M. Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time:",
          "text": "This is the twentysomething generation, those 48 million young Americans ages 18 through 29 who fall between the famous baby boomers and the boomlet of children the baby boomers are producing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person whose age is between twenty and twenty-nine years, inclusive; someone in their twenties."
      ],
      "id": "en-twentysomething-en-noun-KSzPCHH1",
      "links": [
        [
          "age",
          "age"
        ],
        [
          "twenty",
          "twenty"
        ],
        [
          "twenty-nine",
          "twenty-nine"
        ],
        [
          "twenties",
          "twenties"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A person whose age is between twenty and twenty-nine years, inclusive; someone in their twenties."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "vicenarian"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "dvacátník"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dvacátnice"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "twintiger"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
          "word": "kaksikymppinen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine",
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "vingtenaire"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Twen"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
          "word": "huszonéves"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nijūdai",
          "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
          "word": "二十代"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "isipdae",
          "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
          "word": "20대"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "veintitantos"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "veinteañero"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "veinteañera"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "twenty-something"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "20-something"
    }
  ],
  "word": "twentysomething"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "twenty",
        "3": "something"
      },
      "expansion": "twenty + -something",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From twenty + -something.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "numeral"
      },
      "expansion": "twentysomething",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "num",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "17 83",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Between twenty and thirty."
      ],
      "id": "en-twentysomething-en-num-8ndNRzVa",
      "links": [
        [
          "twenty",
          "twenty"
        ],
        [
          "thirty",
          "thirty"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "twenty-something"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "20-something"
    }
  ],
  "word": "twentysomething"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English numerals",
    "English terms suffixed with -something",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "en:Age",
    "en:People",
    "en:Twenty"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "twenty",
        "3": "something"
      },
      "expansion": "twenty + -something",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From twenty + -something.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "twentysomethings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "twentysomething (plural twentysomethings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990 July 16, David M. Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time:",
          "text": "This is the twentysomething generation, those 48 million young Americans ages 18 through 29 who fall between the famous baby boomers and the boomlet of children the baby boomers are producing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person whose age is between twenty and twenty-nine years, inclusive; someone in their twenties."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "age",
          "age"
        ],
        [
          "twenty",
          "twenty"
        ],
        [
          "twenty-nine",
          "twenty-nine"
        ],
        [
          "twenties",
          "twenties"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A person whose age is between twenty and twenty-nine years, inclusive; someone in their twenties."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "vicenarian"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "twenty-something"
    },
    {
      "word": "20-something"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dvacátník"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dvacátnice"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "twintiger"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
      "word": "kaksikymppinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "vingtenaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Twen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
      "word": "huszonéves"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nijūdai",
      "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
      "word": "二十代"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "isipdae",
      "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
      "word": "20대"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "veintitantos"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "veinteañero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "aged between twenty and twenty-nine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "veinteañera"
    }
  ],
  "word": "twentysomething"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English numerals",
    "English terms suffixed with -something",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "en:Age",
    "en:People",
    "en:Twenty"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "twenty",
        "3": "something"
      },
      "expansion": "twenty + -something",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From twenty + -something.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "numeral"
      },
      "expansion": "twentysomething",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "num",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Between twenty and thirty."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "twenty",
          "twenty"
        ],
        [
          "thirty",
          "thirty"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "twenty-something"
    },
    {
      "word": "20-something"
    }
  ],
  "word": "twentysomething"
}

Download raw JSONL data for twentysomething meaning in All languages combined (4.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.