adolescence
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lˈɛs noun
1.
the transitional period between puberty and adulthood in human development, extending mainly over the teen years and terminating legally when the age of majority is reached; youth.
2.
the process or state of growing to maturity.
3.
a period or stage of development, as of a society, preceding maturity.
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World English Dictionary
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| —n | |
| the period in human development that occurs between the beginning of puberty and adulthood | |
| [C15: via Old French from Latin adolēscentia, from adolēscere to grow up, from alēscere to grow, from alēre to feed, nourish] | |
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Word Origin & History
adolescence
early 15c., from O.Fr. adolescence (13c.), from L. adolescentia, noun of state from adolescentem (see adolescent).
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Medical Dictionary
adolescence ad·o·les·cence (ād'l-ěs'əns)
n.
The period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to complete growth and maturity.
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Science Dictionary
| adolescence (ād'l-ěs'əns) Pronunciation Key
The period of physical and psychological development from puberty to the onset of adulthood. |
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Example sentences
Even the physical city seems to be undergoing a kind of defiant adolescence.
Up to the year my stepfather died, he never left me alone about my weight, all through my adolescence and adulthood.
Mine has been a wide variety of colors, mostly during my adolescence.
With the birds putting on weight at a rate of a fifth of an ounce a day, that's a long and worrying adolescence.
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