ad·o·les·cent /-sṇt/
(a.)青春期的,青年的青少年
ad·o·les·cent /-ṇt/ 名詞
青年期的,青少年
Ad·o·les·cent a. Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong,
Detain their adolescent charge too long. --Cowper.
Ad·o·les·cent, n. A youth.
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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]