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Adolescent - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Adolescent : adj
1: relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent;
"adolescent problems"
2: being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen
years" [syn: teen, teenage, teenaged]
3: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent
insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their
behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: jejune, juvenile,
puerile]
4: in the state of development between puberty and maturity;
"adolescent boys and girls"
(noun)
1: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: stripling,
teenager]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Adolescent : \Ad`o*les"cent\ ([a^]d`[-o]*l[e^]s"sent), a. [L.
adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad _ the
inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See Adult.]
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain
their adolescent charge too long. --Cowper.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Adolescent : \Ad`o*les"cent\, n.
A youth.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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