different between adults vs adolescence

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æd?lts/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??d?lts/

Noun

adults

1. plural of adult

Anagrams

• taluds

Catalan

Adjective

adults

1. masculine plural of adult

Noun

adults

1. plural of adult

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