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adolescence
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English
Etymology
From Middle English adolescence, from Old French adolescence, from Latin adolēscentia, from adolēscēns (“young”); see adolescent.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
adolescence (countable and uncountable, plural adolescences)
- The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.
Usage notes
- While adolescence is mostly interchangeable with teendom and teenhood, as it happens during ages ending in -teen, this correspondence is not absolute, so adolescence can be understood as a broader or narrower term depending on the context.
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Translations
period between childhood and maturity
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Further reading
- “adolescence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “adolescence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
adolescence n
- adolescence
- Synonym: dospívání
Declension
Declension of adolescence (soft feminine)
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Further reading
- “adolescence”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “adolescence”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
adolescence f (plural adolescences)
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See also
Further reading
- “adolescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Old French
Etymology
Late 13th century, borrowed from Latin adolescentia.
Noun
adolescence oblique singular, f (oblique plural adolescences, nominative singular adolescence, nominative plural adolescences)
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