Adolescence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adolescence \Ad`o*les"cence\, n. [Fr., fr. L. adolescentia.]
     The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or
     womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and
     maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from
     fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the
     lower animals.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  adolescence
       n 1: the time period between the beginning of puberty and
            adulthood
       2: in the state that someone is in between puberty and
          adulthood

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ADOLESCENCE, persons. That age which follows puberty and precedes the age of
  majority; it commences for males at fourteen, and for females at twelve
  years completed, and continues till twenty-one years complete.