Adolescent - English meaning

noun

A child.

Usage examples:

We used to mix it with that ministry of food orange juice the bairns were issued around the 1950s.

noun

A child

noun

A male child or youth.

Usage examples:

A four-year-old boy

exclamation

Used to express strong feelings, especially of excitement or admiration.

Usage examples:

Oh boy, that's wonderful!

noun

A male child or, more generally, a male of any age

Usage examples:

A teenage/adolescent boy, as a young boy, my father used to walk three miles to school., you've bee…

noun

A young bird that has just fledged.

Usage examples:

Only female hummingbirds are involved in parental care; they must incubate eggs, brood young hatchl…

adjective

New and not experienced

Usage examples:

Still in his teens, he pursued his fledgling career in journalism.

adjective

A fledgling company or industry is a fairly new one with little experience in a business activity

Usage examples:

Many fledgling companies need financial assistance., one of those fledgeling industries in the area…

noun

A female child.

Usage examples:

A six-year-old girl

noun

A female child or, more generally, a female of any age

Usage examples:

Two little girls showed us around the kindergarten., the girls’ basketball team is undefeated., we …

noun

A female child or young woman, especially one still at school

Usage examples:

Two girls showed us round the classrooms.

adjective

For or relating to young people.

Usage examples:

Juvenile crime

noun

A young person.

Usage examples:

It promises efforts to correct behavioural problems among juveniles and to adopt changes to educati…

adjective

Of, by, or for a young person who is not yet an adult

Usage examples:

He studied both adult and juvenile crime.

noun

A boy or young man (often as a form of address).

Usage examples:

Come in, lad, and shut the door

noun

A boy or young man

noun

A girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

He married a lass from yorkshire

adjective

Lesser in importance, seriousness, or significance.

Usage examples:

She requested a number of minor alterations

noun

A person under the age of full legal responsibility.

Usage examples:

The court would take account of the minor's wishes

verb

Short for minor suit.

Usage examples:

A bid of two no trumps shows strength in the minors

adjective

Relating to or denoting a person at or approaching the age of puberty.

Usage examples:

A gang of pubescent boys

noun

A person at or approaching the age of puberty.

Usage examples:

The audience was largely made up of squealing pubescents

adjective

A pubescent child is at the stage in life when they are developing from a child into an adult and becoming able to have children

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Pubescent girls/boys

noun

A boy attending school.

Usage examples:

Schoolboy cricketers

noun

A boy who goes to school

Usage examples:

He recalled that he had a schoolboy crush on her (= liked her very much when he was a schoolboy).

noun

A girl attending school.

Usage examples:

If you're not among the 1,000 english and french private schoolgirls who attend classes at villa ma…

noun

A girl who goes to school

noun

A young man.

Usage examples:

He's a mere stripling

noun

The letter t, or a shape like that of a capital t.

verb

Place the ball on a tee ready to make the first stroke of the round or hole.

Usage examples:

She fished in her pocket for a ball and teed it

noun

The twentieth letter of the alphabet.

noun

The years of a person's age from 13 to 19.

Usage examples:

They were both in their late teens

adjective

Relating to teenagers.

Usage examples:

A teen idol

suffix

Forming the names of numerals from 13 to 19.

Usage examples:

Fourteen

adjective

Denoting a person between 13 and 19 years old.

Usage examples:

A teenage girl

adjective

Aged between 13 and 19

Usage examples:

A teenage nephew, teenage girls, teenage magazines, teenage angst

adjective

Between 13 and 19 years old.

Usage examples:

Crowds of screaming teenaged girls

noun

A person who is 13 through 19 years old

Usage examples:

They have two teenage sons.

noun

A person aged between 13 and 19 years.

Usage examples:

As a teenager she discovered she had a talent for dance

noun

A person who is 13 through 19 years old

Usage examples:

They have two teenage sons.

noun

A young and inexperienced person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident.

Usage examples:

I know her better than you do, you young whippersnapper!

noun

A young person who is too confident and shows no respect towards other, especially older, people

Usage examples:

I'm not going to have some young whippersnapper tell me what to do!

adjective

Having lived or existed for only a short time.

Usage examples:

A young girl

noun

Offspring, especially of an animal before or soon after birth.

Usage examples:

Many grebes carry their young on their backs

adjective

(esp. of something living) at an early stage of development or existence; not old

Usage examples:

Young children should not be left alone at home., i work with wonderful young people mostly in thei…

noun

A child, young person, or young animal.

Usage examples:

Members are organising a transport survey to find out how youngsters get to school.

noun

A young person, usually an older child

Usage examples:

The scheme is for youngsters between the ages of ten and 16.

noun

The period between childhood and adult age.

Usage examples:

He had been a keen sportsman in his youth

noun

The period of your life when you are young, or the state of being young

Usage examples:

I was a fairly good football player in my youth., the first volume is the author's account of his m…

noun

The time when something is new or not fully developed

Usage examples:

It's hard to believe that such an influential film could have been made when cinema was still in it…

adjective

Young or seeming young.

Usage examples:

People aspiring to remain youthful

adjective

Characteristic of young people, or relating to the period of life when you are young

Usage examples:

Her youthful enthusiasm always makes her seem ageless., her voice has just the right mix of maturit…

adjective

Having the qualities that are typical of young people

Usage examples:

At the time i admired his youthful enthusiasm., she has very youthful skin.