adolescent
Collocations
3(noun.)
ADJ
young | spotty | awkward, disturbed
Definitions
adj
Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.
Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.
Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.
noun
A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
It may be wartime, but Miss Adolescent wants her fun!
Besides, there are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years; and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and they literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
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6Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.
WiktionaryAgain, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening,
WiktionaryIt may be wartime, but Miss Adolescent wants her fun!
WiktionaryBesides, there are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years; and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you wer
Wiktionary‘A healthy adolescent might be expected to produce five hundred billion blood cells a day.’
WiktionaryEducation about birth control might help cut down on adolescent pregnancies.
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