Hypertext Webster Gateway: "adolescent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Adolescent \Ad`o*les"cent\, n.
A youth.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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"
n : a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: {stripling},
{teenager}]
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