ADOLESCENT meaning: Youth transitioning from child to adult

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word adolescent:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

adolescent: Merriam-Webster.com
adolescent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
adolescent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
adolescent: Collins English Dictionary
adolescent: Vocabulary.com
Adolescent, adolescent: Wordnik
adolescent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
adolescent: Wiktionary
adolescent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
adolescent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
adolescent: Infoplease Dictionary
adolescent: Dictionary.com
adolescent (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
adolescent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Adolescent (disambiguation), The Adolescent (film), The Adolescent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Adolescent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
adolescent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
adolescent: Rhymezone
Adolescent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
adolescent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
adolescent: Free Dictionary
adolescent: Mnemonic Dictionary
adolescent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
adolescent: Dictionary/thesaurus
adolescent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
Adolescent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)

adolescent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

adolescent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

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online medical dictionary (No longer online)
adolescent: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective: Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.
▸ noun: A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.

Opposite:

adult, mature, aged, elderly, grown-up

Types:

teenager, preteen, tween, pre-teen, tweenie, tweeny, tweenie-bopper, more...

Phrases:

adolescent psychiatry, adolescent development, adolescent health, adolescent pregnancy, adolescent medicine, more...

Adjectives:

young, early, late, older, pregnant, normal, male, female, average, american, typical

Colors:

neon green, electric blue, hot pink, lime green, aqua, more...

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