- a young person who is developing from a child into an adult
- adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18 and the problems they face
- Stop acting like an adolescent!
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- young
- pimply
- spotty
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (as a noun): via French from Latin adolescent- ‘coming to maturity’, from adolescere, from ad- ‘to’ + alescere ‘grow, grow up’, from alere ‘nourish’. The adjective dates from the late 18th cent.
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adolescent