Fancy vocab

Hey check out the 'Word of the Day' I just found in my email!  How fitting - I was just looking up Coming-of-Age books!

Bildungsroman

Bil·dungs·ro·man  [bil-doongz-roh-mahn; Ger. beel-doongks-raw-mahn]

noun, plural Bil·dungs·ro·mans, German Bil·dungs·ro·ma·ne  [-mah-nuh] 

a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.

Origin:
1905–10;  < German,  equivalent to Bildung  formation + -s  noun ending in compounds + Roman  novel