adolescent : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: adolescent	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for adolescent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adolescent adj relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems" being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years" Synonym(s): adolescent, teen, teenage, teenaged displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" Synonym(s): adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls" n a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adolescent \Ad`oles"cent\ ([acr]d`[osl]l[ecr]s"s[eit]nt), 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.