adolescent

English

Etymology

First attested 1482, from Middle French adolescent, from Latin adolescentem, accusative form of adolescens, present participle of adolescere (“to become adult, grow up”), from ad- (“to”) + alescere (“to grow or become nourished”). The adjective first appeared in 1785.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăd'əlĕsʹənt, IPA: /ˌædəˈlɛsənt/, X-SAMPA: /%{d@"lEs@nt/

Adjective

adolescent (not comparable)

1. Characteristic of, or relating to, or undergoing adolescence; immature.
   • Cowper

     Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.

Related terms

• adolescence
• adult

Translations

characteristic of adolescence

• Bulgarian: юношески (bg) (junošeski)
• Finnish: nuori (fi)
• French: adolescent (fr)
• Greek: έφηβος (el) (efivos) m
• Hungarian: kamasz (hu), kamaszkori (hu)
• Polish: nastoletni m, dojrzewający (pl) m
• Portuguese: adolescente m and f

• Romanian: adolescent (ro) m
• Russian: подростковый (ru) (podrostkóvyj), юношеский (ru) (júnošeskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: ògail (gd)
• Slovene: mladoleten
• Spanish: adolescente (es)
• Telugu: కౌమార (kaumaara)

Noun

adolescent (plural adolescents)

1. A teenager; a juvenile after puberty

Translations

a teenager

• Arabic: فتى (ar) (fátan) m
• Armenian: պատանի (hy) (patani)
• Bulgarian: юноша (bg) (junoša), девойка (bg) (devojka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 青少年 (cmn) (qīngshàonián), (boy) 少年 (cmn) (shàonián), (girl) 姑娘 (cmn) (gūniang)

• Czech: dospívající (cs) m
• Finnish: nuori (fi)
• German: Jugendliche (de) m
• Hungarian: kamasz (hu)
• Japanese: 青春 (ja) (せいしゅん, seishun), (boy) 少年 (ja) (しょうねん, shōnen), (girl) 少女 (ja) (しょうじょ, shōjo)
• Latin: adolescentia (la)

• Macedonian: малолетник (mk) (malolétnik) m, малолетничка (mk) (malolétnička) f
• Malay: remaja (ms)
• Polish: nastolatek (pl) m, nastolatka (pl)
• Portuguese: adolescente m and f, rapaz (pt) m, rapariga (pt) f, moço (pt) m, moça (pt) f
• Romanian: adolescent (ro) m, adolescentă (ro) f
• Russian: подросток (ru) (podróstok) m, (boy) юноша (ru) (júnoša) m, (girl) девушка (ru) (dévuška) f
• Scottish Gaelic: òigear (gd) m, (male) òganach (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: adolescent (sh) m
• Slovene: mladoletnik m, mladoletnica f
• Spanish: adolescente (es) m and f, muchacho (es) m, muchacha (es) f, chico (es) m, chica (es) f
• Ukrainian: підліток (uk) (pidlítok) m

External links

• adolescent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• adolescent in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Noun

adolescent m, f (plural adolescenten, diminutive adolescentje)

1. adolescent

Synonyms

• jongere

Derived terms

• adolescentie

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Adjective

adolescent m (feminine adolescente, masculine plural adolescents, feminine plural adolescentes)

1. adolescent

Noun

adolescent m (plural adolescents; feminine adolescente, plural adolescentes)

1. adolescent

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Latin

Verb

adolescent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of adolescō