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3 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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