adolescencenoun [ U ]
uk/ˌæd.əˈles.əns/us/ˌæd.əˈles.əns/the period of time in a person's life when they are developing into an adult:
She had a troubled adolescence.
yet another novel about the joys and sorrows of adolescence
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Young people
- adolescent
- boyhood
- delinquent
- emo
- girlhood
- grow
- grow up
- mall rat
- minor
- punk
- skinhead
- Teddy boy
- teen
- teens
- tweenager
- yoof
- young blood
- young lady/man idiom
- youngster
- yute
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