Hypertext Webster Gateway: "adolescence"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
adolescence
n 1: the time period between the beginning of puberty and
adulthood
2: in the state that someone is in between puberty and
adulthood
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