different between adolescence vs teenage

English

Etymology

From Middle English adolescence, from Old French adolescence, from Latin adolescentia, from adolescens (“young”); see adolescent.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æd??l?s?ns/

Noun

adolescence (countable and uncountable, plural adolescences)

1. The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.

   Synonyms: teendom, teenhood

Derived terms

• preadolescence

Related terms

• adolescent

Translations

Further reading

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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?adol?st?s?nt?s?]
• Hyphenation: ado?les?cen?ce

Noun

adolescence n

1. adolescence

   Synonym: dospívání

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• adolescence in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• adolescence in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adul?scentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d?.l?.s??s/

Noun

adolescence f (plural adolescences)

1. adolescence

Derived terms

• crise d'adolescence
• préadolescence

Related terms

• adolescent

See also

• puberté

Further reading

• “adolescence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Late 13th century, borrowed from Latin adolescentia.

Noun

adolescence f (oblique plural adolescences, nominative singular adolescence, nominative plural adolescences)

1. adolescence

English

Etymology 1

From teen (Kentish variant of tine (“enclose within a wattle fence”)) +? -age (“suffix forming abstract nouns”). First attested circa 1700.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: t?n??j, IPA^(key): /?ti?n?d??/
• Hyphenation: teen?age

Noun

teenage (uncountable)

1. (chiefly Kent dialect) Brushwood for fences and hedges.

Synonyms

• teenet

References

• “?teenage n.¹” defined as a derived term of “teen, v.²”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

Etymology 2

From -teen +? age. First attested in 1921.

Alternative forms

• teen-age, teen age
• teenaged

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: t?n??j, IPA^(key): /?ti?ne?d??/
• Hyphenation: teen?age

Adjective

teenage (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.

Derived terms

• teenager

Related terms

• teens

Translations