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ad·o·les·cent

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–adjective

1.	growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.

2.	having the characteristics of adolescence or of an adolescent.

–noun

3.	an adolescent person.

[Origin: 1475–85; < L adoléscent- (s. of adoléscéns growing up, prp. of adoléscere), equiv. to adol(é)- (see adult) + -ésc- -esce + -ent- -ent

]

—Related forms

ad·o·les·cent·ly, adverb

—Synonyms 1. immature, young. 3. youth, teenager, minor.

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ad·o·les·cent Audio Help (ād'l-ěs'ənt) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence. See Synonyms at young.
Characteristic of adolescence; immature: an adolescent sense of humor.

n. A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity; a teenager.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin adolēscēns, adolēscent-, present participle of adolēscere, to grow up : ad-, ad- + alēscere, to grow, inchoative of alere, to nourish; see al-² in Indo-European roots.]

Word History: The adolescent grows up to become the adult. The words adolescent and adult ultimately come from forms of the same Latin word, adolēscere, meaning "to grow up." The present participle of adolēscere, adolēscēns, from which adolescent derives, means "growing up," while the past participle adultus, the source of adult, means "grown up." Appropriately enough, adolescent, first recorded in English in a work written perhaps in 1440, seems to have come into the language before adult, first recorded in a work published in 1531.

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adolescent (n.)

1482, from M.Fr. adolescent, from L. adolescentem (nom. adolescens), pp. of adolescere "grow up," from ad- "to" + alescere "be nourished," hence, "increase, grow up," inchoative of alere "to nourish" (see old). The adj. is first attested in 1785.

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adolescent
adjective
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"
3.	displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
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

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adolescent [ӕdəˈlesnt] adjective

in the stage between childhood and adulthood

Arabic:	مُرَاهِق
Chinese (Simplified):	青春期的
Chinese (Traditional):	青春期的
Czech:	mladistvý
Danish:	halvvoksen; ung; teenage-; pubertets-
Dutch:	in de puberteit
Estonian:	noorukieas, teismeeas
Finnish:	varhaisnuori
French:	adolescent
German:	jugendlich
Greek:	εφηβικός
Hungarian:	serdülő
Icelandic:	tánings-, unglings-
Indonesian:	remaja
Italian:	adolescente

Japanese:	青年期の
Korean:	청소년기의
Latvian:	pusaudžu-; pusaugu-
Lithuanian:	paaugliškas, paaugęs
Norwegian:	tenårings-, ungdoms-
Polish:	młodociany
Portuguese (Brazil):	adolescente
Portuguese (Portugal):	adolescente
Romanian:	adolescent
Russian:	подростковый
Slovak:	mladistvý
Slovenian:	mladosten, mladostniški
Spanish:	adolescente
Swedish:	ung, tonårs-, tonårig
Turkish:	yeni yetme

adolescent [ӕdəˈlesnt] noun

a person at this stage of life
Example: Adolescents often quarrel with their parents.

Arabic:	المُرَاهِق
Chinese (Simplified):	青少年
Chinese (Traditional):	青少年
Czech:	adolescent, dospívající člověk
Danish:	teenager; ungt menneske; halvvoksen
Dutch:	puber
Estonian:	nooruk, teismeline
Finnish:	varhaisnuori
French:	adolescent, *-ente
German:	der, *die Jugendliche(r)
Greek:	έφηβος
Hungarian:	serdülő
Icelandic:	táningur
Indonesian:	anak remaja
Italian:	adolescente

Japanese:	青年期の人
Korean:	청소년, 젊은이
Latvian:	pusaudzis
Lithuanian:	paauglys
Norwegian:	tenåring, ungdom
Polish:	młodociany, osobnik w wieku dojrzewania
Portuguese (Brazil):	adolescente
Portuguese (Portugal):	adolescente
Romanian:	adolescent
Russian:	подросток
Slovak:	dospievajúci
Slovenian:	mladostnik
Spanish:	adolescente
Swedish:	ung människa, tonåring
Turkish:	ergen

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adolescent ad·o·les·cent (ād'l-ěs'ənt)
adj.
Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence. n.
A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity; a teenager.

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: ¹ad·o·les·cent
Pronunciation: -^&nt
Function: noun
: one that is in the state of adolescence

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Main Entry: ²adolescent
Function: adjective
: of, relating to, or being in adolescence —ad·o·les·cent·ly adverb

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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.

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Adolescent

Ad`o*les"cent\, n. A youth.

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