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Adolescence - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Adolescence : (noun)
1: the time period between the beginning of puberty and
adulthood
2: in the state that someone is in between puberty and
adulthood
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Adolescence : \Ad`o*les"cence\, n. [Fr., fr. L. adolescentia.]
The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or
womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and
maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from
fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the
lower animals.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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ADOLESCENCE, persons. That age which follows puberty and precedes the age of
majority; it commences for males at fourteen, and for females at twelve
years completed, and continues till twenty-one years complete.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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