ad·o·les·cent
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| 1. | growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful. |
| 2. | having the characteristics of adolescence or of an adolescent. |
| 3. | an adolescent person. |
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Adolescent
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adj.
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 |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
adolescent [ӕdəˈlesnt] adjective
in the stage between childhood and adulthood
adolescent [ӕdəˈlesnt] noun
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a person at this stage of life
Example: Adolescents often quarrel with their parents.
Example: Adolescents often quarrel with their parents.
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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.
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Main Entry: 1ad·o·les·cent
Pronunciation: -&nt
Function: noun
: one that is in the state of adolescence
| Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Adolescent
Ad`o*les"cent\, n. A youth.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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