"AYA" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: AYAs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} AYA (plural AYAs)
  1. (chiefly sciences, medicine) Initialism of adolescent or young adult; initialism of adolescent and young adult. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: adolescent or young adult (extra: initialism of adolescent and young adult) Categories (topical): Medicine, Sciences
    Sense id: en-AYA-en-noun-en:adolescent_or_young_adult Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

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